The God You May Not Know by David Jeremiah

 

    As I turned the final page of this book, I'm wondering, how can I adequately describe what I am taking away from its pages? How do I explain, the effects and changes brought about by explanations given?
  This is a book that not only tries but manages to take topics about a sovereign God, God who is unexplainable,  and yet go a long way to doing just that. In a sense, similar to taking a thousand piece puzzle and putting it together to show the intricate and lovely picture that was waiting among those pieces.
 There are those who will say, I know God. I have been a Christian for x amount of years. You know that God created the heavens and the earth. You know that God is Holy and faithful and changeless (just a few of the topics covered within the pages) but this book poses the question, "Does God exist? I say the greatest question is: Do I know the God who does exist? Do I know about Him, and do I know Him personally?" Through the pages of this book the reader is taken on a journey of discovery. A journey of finding out that God wants us to know Him, know about Him and know Him very personally. The many things that we think we know, are joined with the many things we didn't. The one thing among the many, like a very special glue that holds it all together, is the great and pure love of  God, that God  is love.
 It would be a mistake for someone to see this book and think that because they may have grown up in a church, a Christian family, be devout, that they don't need to read this book. What I am taking away from my reading, is that even though the sovereign God in His greatness is as the book put it, unsearchable, He is knowable and I do feel closer simply from the reading.

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