Ever Read One of Those Books?

I’ve been reading a book this summer at camp that has totally wrecked me. It’s called Jesus Centered Life: The Life You Didn’t Think was Possible with the Jesus You Never Knew by Rick Lawrence. If you want a deeper, more real relationship with Jesus apart from the religion and “should’s” so often associated with Christianity, please grab a copy of this book. You won’t be disappointed. I’m going to let the quotes speak for themselves.

My heart resonates with the message of this book! It’s not that the writing is so fantastic, it’s that the message is a real Jesus, wild, unchained, passionate, everything we ever wanted.

This is what I say all the time to people…why are you so consumed with doing good, Christian things? If they say, “Because it’s right” then I keep asking questions. I truly believe that a real and tangible relationship with Jesus will change us from the inside out. We won’t have to worry about “doing right things” because they will automatically flow out of our love for Jesus and out of His life in us.

This prayer cut me to the heart, exposed all the other things I am pursuing, and left the one desire that is stronger than everything else. I just want Jesus!

Can you pray this with me? Have you discovered a God who is so real, and so incredibly good, that you can give Him everything? Surrender is where the beauty happens. The beauty of brokenness. And the true joy of surrender…

I’ve only gotten through half of this book, and it has destroyed me…it has awakened such longing for Jesus, such desire. There is nothing else I want in the world, as much as I want Him. And I am willing to do and to lose whatever it takes to experience more of Him, to know more of His heart, to be with Him where He is…