Friday, April 2, 2010

Book Review: Facing Your Giants

I recently read Facing Your Giants by Max Lucado and realized how I've missed Lucado. I used to read every Max Lucado book I could get my hands on, but had eventually quit because his books tend to all sound alike after a while. Having been a while since I've read anything by him, this book was a breath of fresh air. Oh how I've missed his ability to tell a story like few can! I was hooked from the very first chapter.

Lucado tackles the many different "giants" we face in life: disappointment, hatred, loneliness, bitterness, and grief just to name a few. He uses the life of David as a backdrop to the book. The low points in David's life are experienced by so many of us today. In fact, for each episode of David's life, Lucado uses a modern-day example of people who have experienced the same thing. The lesson to be learned is that no matter what, God can bring us through the "slumps" of our lives. As Lucado puts it, "Giants. We must face them. Yet we need not face them alone."

The chapter that spoke the most to me was about forgiveness. This theme actually ran throughout many of the chapters, but Lucado sums up the whole point of forgiveness when he writes, "Forgiveness is choosing to see your offender with different eyes." We are to see both situations and people through the eyes of God. Not an easy task!

Facing Your Giants was both an encouragement to me and a lesson on how to rely on God no matter what the circumstances. I highly recommend it!

3 comments:

Stacie, A Firefighter's Wife said...

I agree, you have to be in the mood for Max! He is a great parable writer.

Carrie Cooper said...

Carrie @ comfortedbyGod.blogspot.com

I stumbled across your blog--I totally LOVE the title of your blogsite! We call my dad "BigDaddy" and his father was called the same thing! I havent met too many people who have that same term of endearment.

EE said...

That's funny. My husband has always just been known as Big Daddy. He's a big guy, afterall. I've only met one other "Big Daddy" and he was a very small man. I didn't get it. :)

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