Book Review: When God Interrupts by M. Craig Barnes

When God Interrupts by M. Craig Barnes.
Wow wow wow, this is the most honest book I've read about life interruptions so far. That God is often silent when we prefer that he speaks, and he interrupts us when we prefer that he stay silent. His ways are not our ways.
Surprisingly (and I really didn't see this coming), the greatest lesson that I've drawn from the book is GRATITUDE.
The author gives very helpful wisdom and reflections on how to find new life through unwanted change.
Three extracts from the book.
1. "We killed Jesus, not because he claimed to be the Messiah but because he became like us. That is a blasphemy against our greatest hopes for what a messiah do. We don't want a savior who descends into our humanity. We want a savior who will rescue us from all the judgements we have faced."
2. "The deep fear lying behind every loss is that we have been abandoned by the God who should have saved us. The transforming moment in Christian conversion comes when we realize that even God has left us. We then discover it was not God, but our image of God that abandoned us. This frees us to discover more of the mystery of God than we knew. Only then is change possible. "
3." People who have a God do not need to become one. They are too consumed with watching the Lord's salvation unfold. Ask the saints, and they will tell you. There is nothing as joyful as witnessing the salvation of the Lord."
I highly recommend it for reading, reflection and appreciation.


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