Embracing the Mysterious God: Loving the God We Don't Understand

By James Emery White

Book Overview

One of Christianity Today's 2003 Books of the Year! We give ourselves to God and then struggle profoundly with the relationship. We are drawn in and then want to flee in fear. We move from faith to doubt, trust to confusion, intimacy to a feeling of abandonment. Coming to faith is like falling in love. It can be a head-over-heels rush to the altar or a slow acceptance that slips into a heartfelt embrace. Either way, eventually romance crashes headlong into reality. Often we make things worse either by feeling guilty about our struggles with doubt or by trying to dismiss them as unimportant or insignificant. We may even become resentful that God does not simply step in to clear up our confusion.When we find ourselves in any of these predicaments, the only way out is to face our uncertainties about God--deliberately and directly.In Embracing the Mysterious God James Emery White explores these struggles we all face--struggles of heart, soul, mind and strength. And struggles to love our neighbors as ourselves. Here you will find your tough questions about God addressed. Better still, you will find the way to renewed faith.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830823778
• ISBN13: 9780830823772
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: InterVarsity Press
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Faith in the midst of doubt...

There are things about God we just don't understand. And there are events that happen in our lives that make us question God...we so often wonder WHY?Jesus said that the greatest commandment was to love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and the second was to love your neighbor as yourself. James E. White takes this as his outline for the book and explores struggles in our life in loving and understanding God through each of these areas. How to love God while struggling with His silence is an example.It is a refreshing book and encourages - while challenging - the heart. I highly recommend it.

Dealing with doubt

This book is the best book I've read in years. Every believer who has ever stuggled with their faith, whose felt God is sometimes silent, or who wants to be able to answer the hard question that beleivers have about God should read this book. It ministers deeply to the soul and brings hope to all who've wondered about God's apparent silence. It's full of real life examples and interesting historical insight from hero's of the faith like C.S. Lewis and many more. It's a must read. James Emery White has done an excellent job on this work. God will use him greatly.