NONFICTION BOOK REVIEW #2020-046 - Ninety Days to the God Habit: Breaking the Cycle of Mediocre Christianity

RETURNING TO THE GARDEN OF THE LORD

I read this book via an Amazon KINDLE Unlimited download.

With the ever-increasing harried lives most of us are being forced to live in, even those who had been faithful Christians fall victim to the requirements of such a lifestyle. They begin to drift further and further away in their relationships with the Lord. And as they do, they find excuses for not spending a few moments with Him even in silent meditation.

The longer that this continues, there's a higher chance of falling into an abyss of a lack of involvement with the Christian faith. Individuals can deteriorate to where they believe the Lord has ceased hearing their supplications in regards to their needs. Eventually they are like lost sheep who have drifted away from the Lord’s flock and can no longer find their way back to the Shepherd who had once looked over them. Everything becomes meaningless as the joy which once had been present being in this flock has drifted away into nothingness and mediocritcy.

What is needed is something to ignite the darkness that now exists in the lives of these lost Christians and their souls, and to light a pathway back to the Shepherd’s flock, breaking the devastating routine they’ve found themselves in. The author of this book, J. Traveler Pelton, in writing her book, seeks to provide this light, giving her readers a ladder of knowledge with which they’d be able to start climbing of their religious mediocritcy and onto a pathway of living a life that the Lord wants them to follow.

The return journey to the Lord is something which is not instantaneous, as her readers are like children, and need to be eased into it by setting up a daily schedule of keeping an appointment him the Lord each morning when they awake. Once settled into this routine readers are given a proven pathway to renew their loving relationship with the Lord, rejuvenate their devotion and to resuscitate their souls. And in the end they’ll be able to proclaim and begin to sing:

I come to the garden alone
While the dew is still on the roses
And the voice I hear, falling on my ear
The Son of God discloses
And he walks with me
And he talks with me
And he tells me I am His own
And the joy we share as we tarry there
None other has ever known.

As well as singing “Amazing Grace.”

For wanting her readers to be able to return to the Shepherd’s flock and be fulfilled once more, being the voracious reviewer I am of nonfiction Christian books, I have to give Ms. Pelton the 5 STARS she richly deserves.

Amazon Review/Buy link:

https://www.amazon.com/review/R1RH6OM3NUVQ66