Trust and Contentment

So, it’s all been on the lower end of meaningful and encouraging and Godward and uplifting around here lately. But if I was to write such posts, I might hope they would approximate to what you find in these two books – so here they are for you, in commendation. Especially if Christmas is a time of year that contains its hard things, or its pain or disappointment in reflecting on the year that’s past.

I am never so sure what to suggest you do with “devotional” books, because they don’t seem quite like reading your bible to me (and I would apply that even to Charles Spurgeons’s great Morning and Evening) in that it is usually a discussion arising from one or two verses of Scripture, coming at you in any sort of order. So I tend to read these as extras, which might sound like more than some people can manage, but they really are worth reading through in whatever moment you can fit them in (that said I haven’t started on Contentment yet, and am still pondering my way through Trust). Lydia Brownback is a single woman, if that is a fact that is of some note for you – not that these books are by any means limited to women in that state, but to say that it is a state she identifies with.

I couldn’t decide on any one example of a reading to post for you, because there are many that have hit me where they found me at the time, but you can find out more about the books, see the contents and read excerpts over at Crossway's website here (just keep clicking through, and there are two more titles coming next year). If you’re looking for something to soak up for the holiday period, these might be just the thing.