One Life

Have you ever seen one of those recipe books where all the pictures look incredible? You flip through and gasp at warm chocolate brownies with chunks of chocolate cookie and vanilla and caramel ice cream gently melting...you sit there, in awe and wonder, thinking ‘I want one of those RIGHT NOW.’

But that’s not the aim of the recipe book. It’s not just there to convince you that brownies are a good thing (that hardly needs doing), it’s there so you can have brownies.

I’m reading a book at the moment that is, quite simply, remarkable. It’s called ‘The Pursuit of God,’ by a guy called A. W. Tozer, who writes beautiful, almost unbelievable things about God and the life He intended for us. I'm inspired every morning when I pick the book up. And I can get my highlighter out and underline stuff as much as I like, but I’ve realised that’s just like looking at the picture of the brownie and being satisfied. Tozer doesn’t just want me to want God, that’s only the beginning: he wants me to have God.

Now, I understand that some people aren’t as into books as me. I am a bookworm of the first order, and not ashamed of it. Books are amazing. Okay, not all of them – but some of them are incredible, considering they are only paper and funny black shapes. They can move you, teach you, inspire you, change you – if you let them.

I don’t know what you’re reading right now. If it’s not good, throw it away. If it is good, don’t be easily satisfied. Eat the brownies.

P.S. If you want some ideas for good books, find us on Facebook and ask! ‘Leaders are readers,’ as they say...