Speaking of Book Reviews, I'm excited to tease another upcoming review of a Christian book called 'Embracing Obscurity: Becoming Nothing In Light Of God's Everything' by...Anonymous?
Yes, that's right! The author is, in fact, anonymous (which I love, by the way, given the subject matter of this important book!).
Without giving too much away just yet, I was recently contacted by the publisher's marketing group and asked if I would mind receiving a free copy of their newest book to read and review.
How could I resist after that compelling introduction?
I haven't started reading it just yet, but the similarities to David Platt's 'Radical' have me excited to get started soon due to the fact that the content seems equally unique, timely, and, most importantly, Biblically sound in a day and age when 'Easy Believism' reigns supreme.
Please watch for that in the weeks ahead.
I have a feeling it's going to be another one of those 'convicting' reads for sure.
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Yes, that's right! The author is, in fact, anonymous (which I love, by the way, given the subject matter of this important book!).
Without giving too much away just yet, I was recently contacted by the publisher's marketing group and asked if I would mind receiving a free copy of their newest book to read and review.
Unimportance: Surprisingly Good For The Soul
It’s not self-confidence that humans lack, it’s that we have too much self-importance, says an author who , by virtue of that, has chosen to remain anonymous. Or Anonymous.
“We have such a high opinion of ourselves that to live and die unnoticed seems a grave injustice. Yet, has God called us to be anything else?” The very challenge, the very calling, is in fact to embrace obscurity. “When we accept that our value is not dependent on what we do or accomplish, we are – ironically – liberated to do much for Christ.”
Finding that ability – to think little of ourselves – is the topic of the eye-opening book Embracing Obscurity: Becoming Nothing in Light of God’s Everything (B&H Publishing Group, 978-1-4336-7781-6).
Arguably so counter to the desire of humans to “make a mark” on the world, Anonymous argues for the exact opposite, an about face that means rejecting the world’s views of significance.
“One of the greatest ironies of all time is that when we give up the hope of earthly fame and fortune, and instead embrace the obscurity of a life given in service to Christ, we are immediately touched with immortality and assured of eternal glory. By Christ’s own decree, we should be no more defined by the world than He is. Ours should be a different embrace.”
Embracing Obscurity is a call to action to recalibrate the strangling embrace of the world to God’s standards for God’s glory.
Too frightening to put away definitions of achievement, success, and reward and replace them with new ones? The alternative is to allow our intoxication with the world draw us away from our Maker and His mission – an epidemic so common most of us do not even know we are under the influence, says the author.
Those radical enough to embrace obscurity will journey far from the spotlight, towards sacrifice, humility, significance in the Spirit, servant hood, and the mystery of Christ’s becoming nothing to glorify the Father (Phil. 2:5-11).
How could I resist after that compelling introduction?
I haven't started reading it just yet, but the similarities to David Platt's 'Radical' have me excited to get started soon due to the fact that the content seems equally unique, timely, and, most importantly, Biblically sound in a day and age when 'Easy Believism' reigns supreme.
Please watch for that in the weeks ahead.
I have a feeling it's going to be another one of those 'convicting' reads for sure.
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