Moved to Tears

You know when you have picked up a good book when the forward brings you to tears. Of course, it depends on what kind of tears those are! If you're picking up a Left Behind book, your tears may be those of wonder (how can a book written this poorly be this popular?) A Francine River's book? You may cry as her literary and storytelling skill moves you so. If it's a Janette Oke book...well, you shed a tear... maybe because it's just so downright wholesome. If it's an A.W. Tozer book, your tears could be from the sudden realization of how desperately impoverished you are, how small your faith is and how much you need God. Listen to the first paragraph:

"This book contains strong medicine, bitter to the taste but potent if taken in contrition and in belief. For a generation content in is own smugness, emotionally exhausted by the claptrap and bunkum of some well-meaning but misled leaders, glibly familiar with all the niceties of careful theological phrases, the medicine may be too bitter. Only the hopeless will benefit. May the slain of the Lord be many; may the hopeless be multiplied. Only then can we experience what some of us know by rote." And then the final sentence: "For all who will hear, for all who will obey, here is God's answer to our need - Himself."

I have found myself at times in the "hopeless and slain" category and look forward to being challenged and changed by the truths put forth in "God's Pursuit of Man."

Available at your local Christian bookstore.