Can I Trust God?: Understanding the Book of Job (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780692346648)

I grew up in the Christian church and accepted Jesus as my savior at the age of seven, but did not find myself growing very much spiritually as I got older. Even after re-dedicating my life to God at the age of twenty-one I still did not feel close to God. I was attending church and doing all of the right things. In fact, I was one of the best doers there, but something was missing. There just had to be more to the Christian life. I started my own service business in 1990 and by 2000 I could do my work and, at the same time, think on something completely different. So, while working I would meditate on bible verses. It was during one of these extended times of thinking on a particular passage of scripture that something began to happen. For years I would think on 1 Corinthians 2:16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ." I did not see any immediate changes, but I can look back now and see that one specific thought began to permeate my mind: God loved me. I found myself, even on very difficult days of demanding physical labor, being assured that no matter what I was going through; God loved me. I now know I was experiencing the foundational understanding of the mind of Christ. I was receiving the knowledge of God's love. As this revelation was growing I began to see that other Christians, for the most part, did not have this assurance of God's love. I found myself saying all the time, "It's ok, God loves you." But, I knew I had to do more. Sometime around the summer of 2009 God directed me to attend Charis Bible College in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In the spring of 2013 I founded The Truth Wins Ministries, which is dedicated to overcoming the opposing forces that suppress the knowledge of God's love. This book is the second in a series devoted to that purpose.