Saturday, June 4, 2011

You Were Born for This by Bruce Wilkinson

Just one man’s interpretation of God.

As I began to read “You Were Born for This” my interested peaked quickly. The stories and examples were heart wrenching and captivating. Though I do not agree with the author’s definition of miracles, I do agree on the overall premise of the book. In Boy Scouts they called it doing a good deed, another book calls is random acts of kindness and the dictionary defines the same thing as altruism or being a humanitarian. No matter the size or scale of the act, being empathic and altruistic is becoming more and more rare in today’s world. The book provides good methods to seek out and find these types of situations, how you handle them is yet to be determined.

The book has one major flaw. I always struggle with a book that the author is convinced they know and understand God. At first I dismissed the author’s comments but they kept came up time and time again as if they knew exactly what God is thinking and wanting us to do. The most that any of us can do is assume, theorize and pray for understanding of God. The book should state this is the author’s understanding and/or interpretation of how he believes God is thinking and acting, we as humans can do no more than that. Even Jesus Christ did not fully understand God at times how could we. Over all the book was a good read and delivers a strong message that everyone should try to do and understand better.

I received a free copy of this book from Multnomah in exchange for my honest review of the book.

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