God's Love Letters to You, a 40-Day devotional experience by Dr. Larry Crabb, is one of the best devotional books I've read. In fact, I didn't want to read just one a day as intended. Dr. Crabb is a well-known Christian psychologist, teacher and speaker, and he uses his background to inspire us into real conversation and thoughts with the God of the Bible. Using personal letters from God (straight out of the Bible) to us, he is challenging us to hear the love story God is telling us, and to awaken our souls with God's word of life. After each day's devotional, there are also moments to reflect and a short prayer. I particularly recall day 17: Jonah Where God demands our cooperation. Dr. Crabb reminds us that God says, "We are to grow up. Our days of naive worship and shallow intimacy are over. We are wrong to demand GOD's cooperation with our understanding of life. Because God loves me and because His plans are for my good, He demands that I cooperate with Him. There is no other way to enjoy His Presence. When life hits a bump that God could smooth but doesn't, will I countinue to think that God should surrender His wisdom to mine and do what I think best?" Oh what a mess I would be in then. As a good friend of mine would say, "Oh me, Dennis!"
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