Norm Konzelman's Reviews > Purpose in Prayer

More than 4 stars
It becomes the more convincing to me by really good books written by Godly men, that we search too often more vainly for how to do a thing better, or be a thing better.
A better leader. Better soul winner. Better husband/wife. Better at finding that husband/wife God wants for us. Better to pray. Better at giving. And, God help us all, better at living. Etc, etc.
Did I say better to pray?
Oh, this most certainly shows the need I do not come close to meeting, prayer. But much more it showed to me anyway, the Christ of the Bible is not known nearly as well as He should be. Not even by the best men. It is that we should seek in books. To be like Him. More like Him. In all, but perhaps especially in reading.
Do not think I speak against books. Not those written in wisdom honoring to the Lord at least in principles.
What seems to be making an impression upon me though is that what we lack most is becoming what that one book, the Word of God teaches us. We lack being more like Christ.
That one was easy. Tell me what Jesus Christ needs to learn or be taught. And yet He says “Be ye perfect”. Grow. Be like Me.
Would we have so much need of other books if that were true?
What this book 'Purpose In Prayer' said most to me was, I have a city whose Builder and Maker is God. And it is for me, very very far away as I come so short of what I ought. Like thinking you have climbed to the peak of the Appalachians, looking out and seeing the Rocky Mountains and after, the Himalaya's.
How much more I should be for the one who loved me. Who died for me.
That is what this excellent book said to me.
Really good books are Teachers dressed in paper.