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God's Wisdom for Navigating Life

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Thanks so much to the publisher and to NetGalley for giving me access to this book. This book is a good resource for making decisions about your life. I will be recommending this book. Thanks again for letting have a chance to read it.

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Reasons why I like God's Wisdom for Navigating Life:

1) Very well organized. You don't go through the whole book of Proverbs from chapter one verse one to the last verse in the book. Instead the daily devotions are grouped into categories or themes as follows:

- Knowing wisdom – what is wisdom, how do we become wise
- Knowing God
- Knowing the heart – understanding the heart, temptation, emotions
- Knowing others- friendship, gossip, conflicts
- Knowing the times and the seasons – guidance, planning and decision-making
- Knowing the spheres – marriage, sex, parenting, money and work power, justice
- Knowing Jesus, the true wisdom of God

2) As you can see above, it covers many aspects of life, if not all. If you want wisdom about everything in your life, where better to go then to the Book of Life, with wisdom from the Creator?

3) It clears a lot of confusion with seemingly contradictory verses. Devotions grouped into themes and categories helps you to see verses in their proper contexts. Some verses seem to contradict each other but when you group them together, we see that each proverb is often a “description of some aspect of how life works.”

4) Furthermore, Proverbs is seen as one of the chapters in the Bible, and the Kellers bring other verses from other books in the Bible to help you better see what God says about that area in your life.

5) It allows you to go through the book of Proverbs slowly every day throughout the whole year, enabling you to slowly learn and digest and absorb and hopefully apply and live a life worthy of your calling!

6) Challenging prayers – yes prayers! I was not sure I could pray some of those prayers!

7) Extremely thought provoking questions at the end of each devotion. It helps you to delve down deep
into your heart and your mind and your memories.

These are just some of the reasons I can think of at the moment. I highly recommend this devotional! Timothy Keller preached on True Wisdom in his podcast and I highly recommend that you listen to it too. He is a fabulous preacher and many, many of his sermons have moved me to tears!

Thank you Netgalley and publisher for the review copy. This is my honest opinion.

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