I love the smell of a new book store. All those crisp white pages with black letters dancing across the page stir the imagination. I could spend hours browsing authors, looking at photos and reading the first page of dozens of books. Sitting down at a small table in the coffee shop with a latte and a new book has a way of refreshing me.
Books are neither good nor bad, but authors are. Writers can stimulate questions, increase our faith, create doubt in our minds or bring tears to our eyes or they can simply boar us. But few, very few, can bring us life.
Peter warns us to be careful whose books we choose to read as guides to our lives. He favors the holy prophets of the Old Testament, the books of Moses containing God’s commandments and the writings of the apostles of the Lord and Savior. (2 Peter 3:1-2).
Interesting authors that can help you explore these scriptures and the underlying principles try G.K. Chesterton, Charles Swindoll, John Piper, Ravi Zacharias, Josh McDowel, Brother Lawrence. For book titles try, The Pleasures of God, Waiting on God, Divine Conspiracy, and Practicing the Presence of God. For devotional you may like to try Streams in the Desert or My Utmost for his Highest.
