Yet Will I Trust Him: Understanding God in a Suffering World

In this faith-stretching book, John Mark Hicks confides that his own faith was shaken when a post-surgical blood clot stopped the beating of his wife's heart. Until that moment he has never questioned God's goodness. When his brief marriage ended abruptly at a graveside, all the rosy dreams of youth turned gray for him, and cracks began to emerge in his neat conceptions of who God is and how He cares for His own.

John and Sheila had dedicated themselves to a missionary career in Eastern Europe. In the naivete of young faith and love, they had prayed ardently for health and protection. How could their faithfulness have been ignored by the good God they served? John wondered. Why did God choose to look the other way while the blood clot took his beloved? Doesn't God give good things to his servants? How could it possibly be His will for Sheila to die? All these questions and a thousand more ravaged John Mark Hicks' young heart and drove him into the Holy Scriptures to search for understanding.

"This book has changed my own views of God's providence and human suffering. It reflects an amazing combination of theological scholarship, teaching experience, personal experience in suffering, and clarity in thinking and writing."
Allen Black
Harding University Graduate School of Religion
Memphis,TN

"John Mark Hicks is a first class theologian. But this incredible work comes not so much from a graduate seminar as from the losses he has experienced - the sudden death of his first wife and the terminal illness of his son, Joshua. Yet Will I Trust Him is a book I'll read again... and probably again. Throughout, Dr. Hicks has based his words on the creating and redeeming work of our Triune God."
Mike Cope
Minister, Highland Church of Christ
Abilene, Texas

If you have ever struggled with the soul-wrenching questions that arise from suffering, this is a book you will treasure. Your own experiences will validate and candid inquiries and frank, biblical responses John Mark Hicks offers in this hard-hitting book about the relationship of faith and tears.

Yet Will I Trust Him has 11 chapters and 337 pages.