Glory Days {Litfuse Review}

 

About the book:
Glory Days (Thomas Nelson, September 2015)

The wilderness. Maybe you know it well.

The Israelites sure did. After all, they spent forty years wandering the desert. Victories were scarce. Progress was slow. They were free from Pharaoh but not free from fear. Saved but stuck.

Sounds a lot like midlife misery. Caught in a rut. Stalled out. Running on empty. Are you mired in the same?

You can name the day you became a Christian and escaped Egypt. But you can’t remember the last time you defeated a temptation or experienced an answered prayer. You’re fighting the same battles you fought the day you came to Christ. You’re out of Egypt, but Egypt’s not out of you.

Isn’t the Christian life supposed to be better than this?

Jesus offers abundant joy. Yet you live with oppressive grief. The epistles speak of grace. You shoulder guilt. You are more than a conqueror yet are commonly conquered by temptation or weaknesses.

But there’s good news. With God’s help you can close the gap between the person you are and the person you want to be. Like Joshua and the Israelites, you can move from a wilderness existence into a promised inheritance.

This is God’s vision for your life. You, at full throttle. You, as you were intended. You, as victor over the Jerichos and giants. You, minus the stumbles, hurts, and hate.

You and your Promised Land life.

More than 120 million readers have found comfort in the writings ofMax Lucado. He ministers at the Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas, where he lives with his wife, Denalyn, and a sweet but misbehaving mutt, Andy.

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My thoughts:

 

Joy.  This is something that we often find out lives lacking.  For me at least this is so true.  I have often felt like I’m stuck in a rut.  Doing the same things day after day after day with no change.  No change to anything!  Everyday I’d clean house and it would immediately be a mess again(something about 9 kids and three dogs and a tiny house).  Everyday I’d struggle with how to correctly turn my children to truth and right and lead them in a good way.  Some days I wondered if it was all worth it.

 

If you’ve ever felt this way then you need to read Glory Days by Max Lucado.  It’s a wonderful book filled with practical information on how to help yourself find the joy again.  I recommend this book to all who were like I was and in need of  someone to help you find the joy and the all that you can be.  There is so much out there waiting for us we just have to believe and reach out for it.