Last night I finished reading Kevin DeYoung’s book Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God’s Will. It is part of the research I’m doing for a manuscript I need to deliver to a publisher by the end of September (for a book on “doing college well”). As I had hoped, DeYoung’s book is a helpful and brief corrective to the widely held and deeply flawed view that God has a discoverable, personal will for our amoral decisions (where to go to college, which job to take, which Christian to marry, etc.). DeYoung’s writing is engaging and clear, and this short book is a quick read. The applications at the end of the book on how to go about seeking God’s wisdom in choosing a job and a marriage partner were also helpful; they flushed out the principles into the nitty-gritty of actual decision making.
I was particularly pleased to see the application of biblical decision making principles (and a bias to action/productivity) be aimed, at numerous instances in the book, at the somewhat meandering, delayed adultescence, twenty and thirtisomethings. That was the same audience that I had in mind when I wrote With One Voice a few of my subsequent articles. I appreciated DeYoung’s pastoral heart and clear, biblically informed teaching. I warmly commend this book to you.