Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life (2008) - Plot & Excerpts
I received this audiobook for Christian Audio for the purpose of doing a review. Narrator thoughts - To be honest I found this narrator to be a bit monotone. Maybe it was just me, but she didn't seem very enthusiastic about her subject. Book Thoughts - When I first saw this book I was excited. I thought that it would be a book about basking in the fathers love. Instead I found a long (sadly dry) book about how our father is very wrathful but has decided to love us anyway. That's not the God I serve. My God and Jesus love people deeply and is broken-hearted by the effects of sin. He made a way for us to be with Him because He loves us and doesn't want us to be apart, but it was a joint effort. I felt like the book came across more discouraging then I would like. Besides the author didn't really organize her thoughts as I like.Maybe this was just me, but I didn't like the book very much. Because He loves me, Christ can transform my daily life by remembering him and being persisted in seeking and acknowledging him. Only Christ saves. There is no other way. The word testifies, he has testified and as Christian we testify in our walk with him as we are transformed by his likeness. We can easily loose sight of this very thing when our focus changes from him to us. It is a daily struggle to keep him as our central. Ms. Fitzpatrick does a fine job in showing the ways we have gone our own way without ever realizing it. She does not leave her readers there, she shows by the way of the Gospel to keep Christ center in our daily lives. I think our greatest enemy in keeping Christ central is us. With our failures and expectations, we can go in the valleys of despair and forget it is God that first loved us. How often do we hope that his glory and our glory are the same thing? Most of the time they are so far apart that it puts us in a tail spin. We believe in a lie and fall from the truth.
What do You think about Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life (2008)?
Probably the best book I read all year!
—dimitri97
