Book Review

JUST DO SOMETHING BY KEVIN DEYOUNG

The gist of the book, Just Do Something, is that too many of us spend too much time trying to decipher God’s will and too little time striving to obey the plain commands of scripture. God’s will is not a corn maze or Magic 8 Ball. His will is our sanctification. God promises to direct our steps all throughout life. He never promises to show us what each step is ahead of time. Too many of us are prone to passivity and indecision. Doing nothing feels more spiritual (and less risky) rather than doing something. We stumble around in chains of subjective impressions and wander here and there, and in and out of our parents’ basement.

Pastor Kevin DeYoung counsels Christians to settle down, make choices, and do the hard work of seeing those choices through. Too often, God’s people tinker around with churches, jobs, and relationships. They worry that they haven’t found God’s perfect will for their lives. Even worse, they do absolutely nothing. Stuck in a frustrated state of paralyzed indecision, waiting, waiting, waiting for clear, direct, unmistakable direction, nothing happens. There is no need for hocus–pocus or to persist in being directionally challenged. Instead, we are encouraged to get up and Just Do Something.