For the Tough Times- Max Lucado

I've been doing lots of book reviews lately. Then again, I've been reading lots of books lately. Quite a few of them have come from Thomas Nelson. I'm registered as a book review blogger, which means I get to choose a book to have them send me, and then I get to keep, read, and review the book. I'm to post a review here, and on a consumer website. I usually do Amazon since I have an account there. The books have all been different, but so far there haven't been any that I've regretted reading. A few books have come through that I've wanted to review but missed out on, such as one by Ted Dekker, but it happens.
My most recent review was For the Tough Times by Max Lucado. I'll admit that this is the first Lucado book that I've read. Overall, I have to say I wasn't too impressed. This book is small- maybe 6"x8", and about 80 pages of large and widely spaced type. Content-wise, it felt pretty shallow. It can mostly be summed up by the back cover: When all the world is falling apart, what can "good" people do? Why does God allow this? How can good come from such sadness? These are huge questions that people have wrestled since the beginning of time; since Job asked why and his friends urged him to simply curse God and be done with it. Lucado's ultimate answer is the same as that of Job and the scholars: God is still in his temple. He's still on his throne. And he's still in control. Beyond that, this book lightly touches on a few other themes. Forgive those who hurt you, pray to a God who is in control and has our best interests at heart, be silent before a holy God. Any one of these themes could have filled 300 tightly spaced pages, so to have them all neatly folded into such a small package feels like merely skimming the surface of God's promises.
Then again, maybe the worth of this book is in its size and digestability. So many people nowdays don't have the time, knowledge, or patience to work through a 300 page treatise on God's holiness (a topic that will make your head explode if you think about it too much). If that's the case, then For the Tough Times might just be a bite-sized bit of comfort for Christians caught in a world that seems determined to make us lose our minds.