I have just completed reading Pete Wilson’s Plan B [What do you do when God doesn't show up the way you thought He would?] book for the second time. I cannot give enough kudos to this book!
If you have ever struggled with anything or faced any sort of crisis in your entire life, this book is for you. Growing in any kind of way has always triggered questions for me. Pete has offered the hope of God in a different way than I have ever heard it presented. His transparency gives you a feeling that he truly cares about what your desert pain is. He doesn’t pretend to have every answer to the hard questions you are asking.
What he does, is asks you to look inward and upward. Have you become too busy to stop and spend some quality time, not check-the-box-off-your-list time with God? Has busyness become an idol? Your giftedness? TV? Money? Relationship? What is distracting you from giving God 100% of yourself. Those are hard but necessary questions to ask ourselves.
Most times Plan Bs are times of transformation. During the difficult moments, we don’t focus on the real reason why. We cry out to God why in the world things ‘suck so badly for us’, but we are asking the wrong questions. At this point, I’m grateful I’m not Job! I think it’s safe to say that I haven’t suffered quite like he did! I have experienced a particularly difficult Plan B, if you will. No, I didn’t have a spouse cheat on me or abuse me. I didn’t have children born with health problems. I haven’t experienced financial ruin. My Plan B was just the situation that God used, and I needed to wake me up from the robotic motions I was living in. Nothing went as I planned. Nothing turned out as I planned. I hurt like I have never hurt before, but God had my Plan B laid before me – where I would grow and develop into the woman He has called me to be.
If you have experienced anything painful, I strongly urge you to get your hands on this book! Pete Wilson has done a phenomenal job at walking the suffering person through to victory at the feet of Jesus! Thank you Pete for pouring your heart into this book. God is using your book to reach many broken, hurting people and bringing them into His presence for restoration!
Ps 130:5 I wait for the Lord to help me, and I trust His word. – - Do you?
