Book Review: "God Knows: When Your Worries and Whys Need More Than Temporary Relief" by Lisa Whittle

I read a lot of books, both for myself as well as for the podcast, and I can always tell when a new book is released that is truly one-of-a-kind, actually making points and drawing connections that are far beyond mere platitudes and deeper than what I have read on the topic elsewhere.

This can certainly be said of Lisa Whittle’s brand new book released just last week, “God Knows: When Your Worries and Whys Need More Than Temporary Relief”.

Here is the book’s official description:

If we really believed that God knowing was enough — and left it there — our questions, worries, and angst over life’s struggles would find more than temporary relief.

Just breathe. God is on it.

MANY OF US WAKE UP EVERY DAY WITH LOOMING ANXIETIES OVER OUR FUTURE AND A WEARINESS WE CAN’T SHAKE. WE HAVE MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS AND LIVE WITH DIFFICULT DAILY REALITIES AND SECRETS WE FEEL WE CANNOT SHARE. THE QUESTION REMAINS FOR MOST BELIEVERS: HOW CAN I FIX IT, MAKE SENSE OF IT, OR SOLVE IT?

Enter God Knows: a guidebook to lead the modern believer to a place of release, relief, and reliance upon the omniscience of God. Inspired by the seldom-studied book of Nahum, God Knows details the behind-the-scenes picture we are missing, what His great knowing entails, and how his omniscience provides daily perspective to bring the healing and peace we are all desperate to find.

In this book you will…

Experience freedom by learning the difference between privacy and secrecy,

Develop renewed belief in your abandoned dreams and goals, still known by God,

Realign your idea of God’s omniscience being far away to how it daily affects you,

Release your fears for the future as you develop a different outlook on tomorrow through God’s lens, and

Learn how to deal with injustice in light of God’s knowledge of it.

As you might have drawn from the description, this book addresses the reality of God’s omniscience – His being “all-knowing” – and explains in such biblical and concrete terms just why it is that His omniscience is such a good thing for us. It is easy to give mere lip service to this idea and yet not have it truly sink in or become something we actually understand.

That is one reason this book is such a blessing.

Lisa does a masterful job of showing just why it is that God’s omniscience is such good news for us as His people. But she goes even further, practically applying that truth to issues of everyday life – our goals and dreams, our secrets and struggles, injustice and vindication, our past and our future, and more.

If you want to read a book that will deepen your trust in God and faith in His good plan, if you want to be equipped to know how to handle the struggles and injustices of this life biblically, if you want to see long-held burdens lifted off your shoulders, I cannot encourage you enough to pick up a copy of this book! It will be the balm your soul needs.

You can grab a copy for yourself here or head on over here to enter a giveaway to win a copy!

*I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.