With Thanksgiving coming up this week, it seemed this would be an appropriate book to highlight. The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment was very profitable and helpful to me in this day of materialism, covetousness, and greed. Even though I have a very comfortable life, I still find myself complaining and worrying - whether outwardly or in my heart - about trivial matters, and this book really helped put everything into proper perspective.
I was concerned about attempting to read a book that was written in 1648 by a Puritan author, but Burroughs' writing style is very readable, certainly no more difficult than a KJV Bible. Burroughs does a wonderful job of reminding the reader that we are merely pilgrims passing through this world. That it is natural not to be comfortable here, because it is not our home. ("I am a traveler and I must not be finding fault; I am in another man's house...") That my contentment and peace should derive from God alone, and from no earthly person or thing. Right at the start of the book, Burroughs offers this definition of Contentment:
"Christian Contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which FREELY submits to and DELIGHTS in God's wise and fatherly disposal in EVERY condition" (Caps mine).
He goes on after this to dissect this definition and expound on each of these aspects of contentment.
For my full review on this book, visit www.ImAllBooked.com
I was concerned about attempting to read a book that was written in 1648 by a Puritan author, but Burroughs' writing style is very readable, certainly no more difficult than a KJV Bible. Burroughs does a wonderful job of reminding the reader that we are merely pilgrims passing through this world. That it is natural not to be comfortable here, because it is not our home. ("I am a traveler and I must not be finding fault; I am in another man's house...") That my contentment and peace should derive from God alone, and from no earthly person or thing. Right at the start of the book, Burroughs offers this definition of Contentment:
"Christian Contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which FREELY submits to and DELIGHTS in God's wise and fatherly disposal in EVERY condition" (Caps mine).
He goes on after this to dissect this definition and expound on each of these aspects of contentment.
For my full review on this book, visit www.ImAllBooked.com
