About the book:
Title: Deep - O - Tionals; Devotions with Depth Genesis Part 1
Author: Mesu Andrews
Genre: Bible Devotions
Perhaps you know Mesu Andrews as the author of best-selling, award-winning biblical fiction, but in Deep-O-Tionals: Devotions with Depth, readers are invited to discover the roots of Mesu’s writing strength. From her earliest days as a young mother seeking daily guidance from the Scriptures to her current journey as a grandmother finding inspiration in God’s Word, Mesu has always been a lover of the Bible. Readers are invited to share in her real, raw, and refining journey with the One who calls us all to dive deep into life with Him.
Few of us have hours to study Scripture or find insight with our limited understanding of God’s Word. Deep-O-Tionals: Devotions with Depth presents Bible study details in conversational content. The resulting daily devotional studies combine in-depth looks at short Scripture passages with real-life applications of spiritual truth. Each lesson includes an introductory story that touches the heart, the day’s full Bible text with commentary to teach the mind, and a heartfelt suggested prayer to transform the life. Bonus material called, Sheep Going Deep, provides extra Biblical content for the Good Shepherd to lead those seeking deeper study.
This volume, Deep-O-Tionals—Genesis: Part 1, covers the first twenty chapters of Genesis, beginning with the story of creation and moving through the painful fall toward God’s plan of redemption. Familiar stories about the flood, humanity’s early attempts to form civilization with the tower of Babel, and God scattering people across the earth sets the stage for the introduction of a new kind of covenant. One man, Abram/Abraham, and his wife Sarai/Sarah are chosen to be one family who will bring one promised child into the world to bless all nations. This volume concludes just prior to the birth of Isaac and foreshadows the life and sacrifice of the One whose miraculous birth millennia in the future will become the ultimate redemptive blessing to all of humanity.
My Thoughts
I have been a fan of Mesu Andrews since I read Love's Sacred Song. When I was asked to review this collection I had no idea what I was going to encounter. As a reader who loves Ms. Andrews's fiction, I opened the book timidly. And just like her fiction, this devotional series is filled to the brim with the truth from the Bible. It also gives the reader journaling questions that allow them to go deeper with God.
In some of the devotionals, she asks questions that believers have been asking for years and points the reader straight to the Bible for the answers.
Each devotional has three parts. Sheep Going Deep is probably my favorite part of the devotion.
Giving the scripture Genesis 2:16-17 -- "Yaweh God commanded the man saying, 'You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.
She then asks these questions to the reader.
-Did Adam and Eve die the moment they ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?
-Did God lie? Why or why not?
This is a devotional you can sink your teeth into and grow in your understanding of the Bible and in a deeper relationship with God.
I highly recommend this devotional series!
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book via the publisher. I was not required to write a review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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