Take a rubber band and pull it tight. As long as it is tight you have potential energy, let it go, and all the energy that it stored is released. This mental picture kept popping up in my mind as I read Mark Battersons newest release, Soulprint.
In Battersons latest, he relies heavily on the life of David and how every area of his life was leading to a much bigger picture; a picture that though often troubled, was rife with God and how this King was guided by Him.
The biggest thing I gleaned from this book is that there really is no need for a self help book that tries to build in you everything you need to succeed. Batterson maintains, and I agree, that all you need to succeed was within you before you were born. You were created unique in all the history of the universe and everything you need to fulfill the plan built around that uniqueness is already within you waiting to be recognized.
Sanctification (the process of making holy) is a spiritual concept that in recent times has fallen under the name it and claim it philosophy, and often it is not even a part of the spiritual life. Mark Batterson has done a great job in both bringing it back to its Biblical foundations and back to the forefront where it belongs.
I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review.
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