In Disobedient God, Albert Tate explored how we can learn, manage, and address the areas in which we feel ignored and frustrated by God. A great deal of us has the expectation that if we do everything right then God will allow everything, we go through in life to go right. When life doesn’t go as planned, we start to believe that God is being disobedient towards us. He shared how strong faith comes from being rejected, facing loses, struggling with doubt, and going through painful events. He explained how the children of Israel replaced God and chose to worship a golden idol instead. They kept on waiting and waiting for Moses to return from the mountain and they felt that God was taking too long and he was being disobedient. They reverted back to what they knew and forgot about all the times and the ways in which God provided for and protected them. Albert asked readers what golden calves do they have lying around. He indicated how our idol could be food, alcohol, money, and whatever else you replace God with.
He revealed how his secret idol was revealed while they were watching Oprah and his wife asked him if he struggled with pornography. He finally confessed his struggle to her and how he believed that marriage would fix the problem and it didn’t. He explained how he learned how he was really longing for God and intimacy. He looked at how we are all made to worship something and we get to choose what that is.
One of my most favorite stories was about Lisa and how she was one of their former youth group students. She confessed how was date raped by several men and would go from relationship to relationship. She would also meet men in bars and engaged in sexual relationships. She clarified how she faced guilt and shame. He encouraged her to state the number on how many people she has slept with. He then proceeded to tell her 316 and used this number to reference the scripture verse on how God loved her and how if we would believe in Him and we can have everlasting life. He powerfully explained how this number is the only number that needs to define her. I loved this prevailing example and how many people will be able to contact to this story and how we need to let John 3:16 to redefine our life and we don’t need to live with shame or guilt over our past sins.
I would recommend this awesome book to anyone who is wanting assistance in learning to deal with disappointment and they have been misunderstanding a disobedient God. We could be trying to replace God, trying to run away from Him, and trying to perform for Him to get Him to notice us. All of these can aid us in reaching for Jesus. This book was very inspirational and will help readers to trust God and to learn to handle their longings. I seriously loved how he went into detail about Jonah’s life and how he ran from God. He stated to readers how we can’t outrun God’s presence and we are wasting our efforts when we try to. I also appreciated how he opened up about his own stories of being bullied and how he ran from them emotionally and didn’t ever deal with the events until he was in his 40’s. I really enjoyed reading about his stories and thought he did an excellent job in tying in Biblical stories into the lessons.
"I received this book free from the publisher, Hachette Book Group/Faithwords for my honest review.”
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https://www.amazon.com/Disobedient-God-Trusting-Goes-Off-Script/dp/1546000569
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