In Search of the Silver Lining: Where Is God in the Midst of Life's Storms?
Overview
When faced with suffering, what are your choices? Storms have always raged. People have either perished in their wake or risen above the tempests - shaping history by their responses. New storms are on the horizon. How will we deal with them? How will we shape history or those who follow us? The answer lies in how we view God in the midst of the storms.
Answers to the problem of pain and tragedy often elude the people of God. In this sensitive book, author Jerry Gramckow attempts to answer one of life`s toughest questions, but not in the usual way. He says that the real importance of suffering does not lie merely within the individual`s ability to analyze his condition and solve his problems. He claims that suffering is God`s way of building a close-knit, interdependent community. That community should be the primary way to deal with individual suffering. For those going through difficult circumstances, this book offers a hopeful, scriptural approach that can help you through the storms of life.
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- Discussion on trials as the framework of community
- Tools for dealing with suffering
- Encouragement to build community as a means to help those who suffer
Top Highlights
“Or will we submit ourselves to God and his purposes and seek his guidance as we walk through the storm, our hand in his and our heart confident that, ultimately, good will triumph over evil, and light will dispel darkness?” (Page xiii)
“During World War I German soldiers were issued two books: The Gospel of John and Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra.” (Page 10)
“Praise in the midst of the dark times unlocks the faith that shines the light at the end of the tunnel.” (Page 97)
“Job’s second revelation was that God is sovereign, and resisting him is futile. God is the center of the universe; that is a lesson that Job—like the rest of us—would not learn easily. (Turn to chapter twenty-nine of the book of Job and examine Job’s ‘I’ problem.) Sadly, most of us have to go through a lot of bumps and bruises before we get our ‘I’ problems fixed.” (Page 80)
“Like children, we instinctively—beneath conscious thought—assume that we are being punished when bad things happen to us. Some would attribute the troubles to a mystic bad karma—the powerful but impersonal ‘force’ of the universe that metes out to each of us our deserved retribution in a sort of moral cause-and-effect system.” (Page 23)
Gramckow resists the blithe platitude, the glib answer . . . examples make the reading pleasant despite the heaviness of the topic.
—The Messianic Times
This book shows the way to a biblical balance in regard to suffering. It is a correction to an orientation that seeks personal peace and affluence and then finds Yeshua as the means to achieve it.
—Daniel Juster, Director, Tikkun Ministries
Jerry Gramckow has laid the foundation to embrace pain and suffering and anticipate the eternal outcome.
—Joseph C. Aldrich, President Emeritus, Multnomah Bible College and Biblical Seminary
Jerry Gramckow looks at this age-old dilemma with some fresh insights.
—Ray Beeson, President, Overcomers Ministries
- Title: In Search of the Silver Lining: Where Is God in the Midst of Life`s Storms?
- Publisher: Messianic Jewish Publishers
- Author: Jerry Gramckow
- Publication Date: 1999
- Pages: 176