Continuing from the Good Reads post. I actually pick up the book Christ at the Crossroads because I feel that I am at a crossroad and the title just caught my attention so I decided to pick it up and flip through a couple of pages which I then found it very addictive to and fascinating.
The author Chales R.Swindoll a well known author in the Christian Literature uses many examples from Shakespeare - Macbeth and the poem which most of us would have covered in our School days Life's Brief Candle, and also Robert Frost's which is no stranger to us as well as we have covered his famous poem The Road Not Taken in the days we wore uniform.
Out, out brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by and idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
The book touches on Christ at the Crossroad of Temptation, Misunderstanding, Anxiety, Shame, Ambition, Death, Doubt, Accomplishment, Divorce, Remarriage, Confrontation, Pain, Prejudice, Hypocrisy, Integrity, Disqualification and Inadequacy. Areas which is much too familiar to us and that we can relate to.
He offers mind probing questions and also reflection on the areas that usually we would have a set understanding in our beliefs and seeing another point of view would spell HORROR.
To me throughout the book although I actually read the book looking for quick fix, I have to say that I ended the book not really having a solution to the problem but really seeing my God in a whole different light. Its amazing how routine can make things a norm and that knowing God as He really is became difficult and having Him box up in my mindset of understanding and my years of experience became what things are.
A little caption from the book which is the part I first read. So its a random piece from the book.
Part of what makes accomplishment a dark, driven thing is that we try to make it do something it is not designed to do. If we try to make it the basis of self-worth, if we use it as a tool to impress others rather that as a joy to be shared, then we bind ourselves with cords of frustration and aching neediness because what it was designed to fill remains empty, and what it is trying to fill it cannot fit.
It was funny to see how this book takes it a little deeper and further the things mention in Hell @ Work. Different authors but the message I get seems to be the same.
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