Today we will be having a book review:

A while back I saw a Christian film 'Pilgrim's Progress', based on the famed book by John Bunyan.

Therefore, recently as I was grabbing a book to read in my bath, I picked up this classic book and began to read it. Often it is very true that the books are way better than the films they are in, this is also the case with Pilgrim's Progress.

As I was reminded of the story and how real the analogy was to general Christian walk, I was just stirred by God's goodness: that despite, our failures, shortcomings, and being astray sometimes he still loves us and never sends us away.  This grace, this mercy just could not relent but it brought me to wanting to cry and just worship God for his goodness.

So I encourage you to read the book.

If you happened to have never heard of the book its about a journey of a man called Christian, to find the celestial city and freedom from sin. Whilst on his journey, he often strays away from the path to his goal and encounters many people who both seek to help him and to destroy him. The whole book is an analogy for a Christian life and journey to God. Hope you'll read it ir have read it, stay blessed!

2 Days ago I went to see the film father of lights by Darren Wilson.  It was amazing or as my flatmate would put it, it was ‘totes emosh’. Anyway the film is a documentary of this guy that goes round the world and just films the work of God in people’s lives, with deliverance from demonic depression, miracles and just generally lifestyles of love.

Funnily enough one of the most challenging bits that I have found was at the end of the film. The ending featured an excerpt of an interview with the evangelist Reinhard Bonnke. And what he said was powerful. I can’t remember the full quote but to paraphrase it: he said that in his evangelism he would people who would spread tables before their gods to worship. However, God of Christianity does the opposite, namely he prepares the table before us to encounter the table and come and drink (Isaiah 55).  God wants intimacy with his children.

Thinking about this I realised that we in the western world can be no different than people in the third world countries. There is no such thing as primitivism. All our nature is the same regardless of our education and financial status. We all tend to create or idols: technology, sex, relationships and work. We all turn to these things and we feel in the comfort zone, being safe. Yet God asks us to go for an adventure to seek him.  To take part of this table and eat, what is that truly matters this world that is like a hotel that is not worth investing in or our heavenly inheritance, where we should invest for our reward. Don’t get me wrong it’s not of performance, but of grace still, we are called to more than to scrape through our lives, living in idolatry and luke-warmness. So let us ask ourselves this, what is the area in our life over which we do not let God take control over?