Readers: I have just finished reading one of the most wonderful Christian fictional books written in a very long time. It is called the "The Shack" written by William P. Young. This book will be a spiritual experience for you, it will wake you to the reality of God's grace and His love, and the part that God plays in a universe we think has gone mad, but yet, HE IS STILL IN CONTROL!
I read intensely, as I do all books that grab my attention, I hungered to hear more of so many confirmations of the truth the Lord as revealed to me in my walk with Him for over the 49 years of my walk with Him. It will stir your emotions as well as your intellect, it will give you thoughtful perspective into the reality of not only the atonement but the life of Christ available to every believer that comes to know that wonderous love of God and who he really is. He is not what man has devised in their fallen minds, but He is beyond all we can imagine or think. This book is a story of one man's pain and suffering in growing up under a religious but abusive father who he even sought to kill. It is the story of this same man, and his loss of hsi young daughter to a serial child killer. It is the story of hope, love and forgiveness offered to Christ for all of us no matter what walk we are in life, no matter what sin we have committed, no matter what religious bondage we have fallen prey to, it is story of faith, hope and love. It transcends all the mumbo jumbo religious garbage out there, and brings you to your knees before PAPA- our heavenly Father, not out of fear and bondage to fear but out of response to the MASTER OF LOVE AND PEACE. It will bring you to understand that our concept of God is so limited by our earthly minds and carnal nature. It will make you realize just how far our fallen state of mind has reduced the ETERNAL ONE, to a mere image of our fallen selves. It will make you see how the history of the institution has manipulated men, women and children to draw upon the concepts of God's love into a bitter fear and hiding that Adam must have felt in the Garden, yet there was PAPA crying out his name looking for him, not to shame him but to cover his now known darkness of his fallen self. It will awake you to the reality that HE IS ALWAYS IN CONTROL...and no evil that has befallen you or loved ones, can ever separate the fact that GOD IS LOVE!
WHAT FORGIVENESS, WHAT GRACE, WHAT WONDER....if we all could only have the experience as Mack the main character in the book had. In truth, it has been a little here and a little there, but imagine a few days in the presence of the GREAT ONE portrayed as HE walked this earth, as pure human flesh, as you and I yet, though tempted to disregard God's love and promises he held strong so that you and I can come into that very same relationship with PAPA, and through Him we might experience the power of TRUE LOVE not distorted by man's concepts of hatred and fear.
God loves us...He truly loves all of mankind and meets us on the road we are on, anytime and anyplace. The confirmations of things that the Father has taught me in this latter part of my life were wonderful to find that I wasn't alone, that this author through the portrayal of a simple fictional book could bring those to bear that I am not alone in my perception of the wonder of God's love. Read it or you will miss a wonderful blessing, that will make you cry and receive joy within your spirit. It is a gift from God that led the authors hands and mind to put words to it all that very few authors ever have, and most preachers will never be able to do so, or desire to do so, less they find themselves, unemployed, for lack of some sheep to manipulate and con. I don't say that meaning all have a heart of greed but the institution is a hierarchy which God knows nothing of. May God bless you in reading this book. Go to the website or click on the link above. See you at the Shack someday...
Dr. J.
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