Every so often a really practical, spiritual book comes along, and even though that sounds like a contradiction in terms (practical, spiritual), it’s impossible not to pick it up and see what can be learned.
One of those books is 40 Ways to Get Closer to God, by Jerry MacGregor with Keri Wyatt Kent, just out from Bethany House Publishers. I encourage you to get a copy and study it. The book is organized into 40 days, so rather than chapter headings, you find “Day Twenty-Eight,” for example, which happens to be about letting go of worry and instead choosing to trust: “Trust is not based on our circumstances, but rather on our decision to believe God is in control.” Each day’s chapter has a discussion of the spiritual discipline described along with a challenge of how to put that discipline into practice immediately.
In his blog, MacGregor writes: “if you read this book, you’re not going to glow in the dark. It’s not one of those, ‘I worked to be perfect … now YOU can be perfect like me’ type of books [but] if you and I sat down at Starbucks to talk about this topic, the things in the book are exactly what I’d say.”
Just imagine: 40 practical ways to get closer to God! Surely a few of them will fit exactly where you are today.
