Stop Look And Listen Analysis
At this time in my life, this book was very well received. With so much going on in our world today, I do not believe we do enough of what the title recommends. We do not “Stop, Look, and Listen”. James 4:14 – “Whereas ye know what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.” Scripture reminds us that life is short and for a middle-aged man I adamantly agree. The book really provoked me to thinking about many things. The one thing that I never really thought about is dreams and their importance. With the rat race of life and everyone being in such a hurry to do everything, we forget some of the smallest details. The book mentioned that we do not stop to listen
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As mentioned previously, it opens your mind to some things that we easily miss at times during our busy lives. The author states biblical faith is stopping, looking, and listening. Hebrews 11:1 – “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Our faith alone allows us to ponder, stop, look, and listen. He presents himself, with this book, to be a man of great faith in which he lets all his readers know that he is not without his faith. Hebrews 11:6 – “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” The book’s argument came easy to me when he immediately began to mention his faith and how important it is to him. Faith, by the way, is also one of my favorite topics to …show more content…
For the Christian and practically everyone who is honest about the person in the mirror, there should always work to do to improve one’s spirituality. Keeping this in mind that our time here on earth is not long it is important for us to stop, look, and listen to the things that we sometimes take for granted. When we can get better at doing this, we can pursue peace as the book talks about at the end. He quoted the song, “Be Thou My Vision”. The Christian is on the battlefield daily and needs little reminders of God’s power. This song pulled me in from the very
As mentioned previously, it opens your mind to some things that we easily miss at times during our busy lives. The author states biblical faith is stopping, looking, and listening. Hebrews 11:1 – “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Our faith alone allows us to ponder, stop, look, and listen. He presents himself, with this book, to be a man of great faith in which he lets all his readers know that he is not without his faith. Hebrews 11:6 – “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” The book’s argument came easy to me when he immediately began to mention his faith and how important it is to him. Faith, by the way, is also one of my favorite topics to …show more content…
For the Christian and practically everyone who is honest about the person in the mirror, there should always work to do to improve one’s spirituality. Keeping this in mind that our time here on earth is not long it is important for us to stop, look, and listen to the things that we sometimes take for granted. When we can get better at doing this, we can pursue peace as the book talks about at the end. He quoted the song, “Be Thou My Vision”. The Christian is on the battlefield daily and needs little reminders of God’s power. This song pulled me in from the very