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A review by librarydeb
Audacious by Beth Moore
5.0
I really loved this book. I used 61 sticky flags on this book. That should tell you something. I chose this word as my word for the year because I saw this book title and looked up the meaning. I still like the definition of this word and still want to live an audacious life and love God audaciously (as he loves me), but this book did not turn out to be THE book for my year.
I was up in the air about this book for a while, though. This is why it took me so long to finish it. I considered, for a few weeks, putting this book on my will never finish book list. The middle of the book got me so down on myself. I was slipping into the negative mentality that I dealt with in my Baptist upbringing. That feeling that nothing I did was good enough and that I needed to go to the alter every week because I had so much wrong with me.
After a break I decided to give the rest of the book another chance and I am glad I did. There are some parts that I find legalistic and in some places she uses to much Old Testament thinking and to many O.T verses to prove her points. It is hard to live mixing Grace and law. The law was to point us to Christ because we cannot live up to it, we cannot keep the law.
The book tells us how much God loves us and how we can and should audaciously love him in return.
Here is one of my favorite quotes as it hits me where I am right now. Unfortunately we have been in this spot for a while now. I am trusting God for deliverance soon...
"Tell him what is really going on in our minds, who is frustrating us beyond our last wiff of patience, how tired we are, how mad we are, or, for the love of God, now bored we are. We can fellowship with Him right in the middle of that expensive moment. When we feel stuck or smothered, we can turn that jail cell into the Holy of Holies. We can cry out or moan, or just sit in tired silence and think four coherent words: Jesus, I need You." (pg 80)
I do recommend this book, just be careful of that legalism I mentioned.
Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge prompt(s) –Your favorite prompt from the 2015, 2016, or 2017 Popsugar Reading Challenge -- I chose 2015's prompt, A book from an author you love that you have never read yet
I was up in the air about this book for a while, though. This is why it took me so long to finish it. I considered, for a few weeks, putting this book on my will never finish book list. The middle of the book got me so down on myself. I was slipping into the negative mentality that I dealt with in my Baptist upbringing. That feeling that nothing I did was good enough and that I needed to go to the alter every week because I had so much wrong with me.
After a break I decided to give the rest of the book another chance and I am glad I did. There are some parts that I find legalistic and in some places she uses to much Old Testament thinking and to many O.T verses to prove her points. It is hard to live mixing Grace and law. The law was to point us to Christ because we cannot live up to it, we cannot keep the law.
The book tells us how much God loves us and how we can and should audaciously love him in return.
Here is one of my favorite quotes as it hits me where I am right now. Unfortunately we have been in this spot for a while now. I am trusting God for deliverance soon...
"Tell him what is really going on in our minds, who is frustrating us beyond our last wiff of patience, how tired we are, how mad we are, or, for the love of God, now bored we are. We can fellowship with Him right in the middle of that expensive moment. When we feel stuck or smothered, we can turn that jail cell into the Holy of Holies. We can cry out or moan, or just sit in tired silence and think four coherent words: Jesus, I need You." (pg 80)
I do recommend this book, just be careful of that legalism I mentioned.
Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge prompt(s) –Your favorite prompt from the 2015, 2016, or 2017 Popsugar Reading Challenge -- I chose 2015's prompt, A book from an author you love that you have never read yet