Sonderbooks Book Review of

Always True

God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard

by James MacDonald

This is one of those bread-and-butter good spiritual reminders books. James MacDonald goes over five promises from God that you can always count on.

This makes good reading to slowly go through in your devotional times, and that's how I was approaching it. The first four promises were nice steadying, comforting, encouraging reading.

Those were great, they were uplifting, and it encouraged me to read about them. But the fifth promise blew me away.

Here's the deal. Back in 2006, when I first learned that my husband had filed for divorce, and I was completely devastated, God gave me this verse:

Now, over the years that followed, whenever my husband would mention the word lawyer or threaten me with legal action, this verse would come up, somehow or other. It happened over and over and over again.

Eventually we did get divorced, but last April there was one part of the agreement my ex-husband had not complied with. I didn't want to do it, but I felt I had to take him to court. My lawyer filed a motion for him to comply and it went to court in April, and things got taken care of, and I was awarded court costs.

The next morning, I opened up this book to read a devotional chapter. Here's what jumped out at me, in a highlighted box as the chapter heading:

Yes, in that moment, I felt very loved, very protected, very cared for, and very noticed.

James MacDonald sums it up in a heading for this chapter:

This book is, plain and simple, a book of encouragement; a book to cheer you on as you overcome. Here's another statement he makes that I love:

Read this book if you can use some encouragement and some reminders of God's faithfulness.