The Practice of the Presence of God

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It is this last emphasis, the reliance on God’s grace for all of this, which makes this book so wonderful to me. Other highlights include a 1 paragraph description of what faith is like (page 88/89 in this edition) and Brother Lawrence’s description of what the first 10 years of his Christian life was like. Since its initial printing, Practice has been always been available in one form or another and now can even be found in many versions on-line. It's a collection of documents by and about Brother Lawrence who, from the sound of it, was a genuinely humble, dedicated follower of Christ. Numerous versions of The Practice of the Presence of God have been published, as reprints or new translations.

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He set himself a discipline of awareness of the Divine Presence, until it became his habit and his life. As my friend from Tennessee often says, reading it is like being “hit upside the head with a tire iron! Though shedding some light on the history of the barefoot Carmelite monks of late 1600s Paris, this book would mainly be enjoyable and useful to practicing Christians. This book explores the importance of God’s presence in the Bible and how it relates to his plan for the world, helping readers understand what we really mean when we say God is with us. The weekly reflections from the French and Austrian Carmelites were a wonderful supplement to the text to be kept alongside the book for the next read.Maybe he means something different than I realize, but if he means what I think he means, I have to wonder if the man even understands the gospel. Actually, this is more of an author review as I don't take issue with the content of the book, which is highly reccomended, but rather the inconsistent lifestyle of the author. I was disappointed to learn that really only about half of this book was written by Brother Lawrence.

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While I think he can use those sufferings for good, I don’t know that they are usually deliberately sent to us for the purpose of soul refinement.Brother Lawrence's core insight is that if God is everywhere, we are always in his presence; so our difficulty is not so much in being "nearer" or "farther" at various points in life, but in being more and less aware of the divine presence due to busyness and other immediate distractions. And once we KNOW - listening to Brother Lawrence - how to get there, we’ll finally be sure of Who we are and what our Purpose is. I challenge you to read and re-read and re-re-read this short little book (You can dash through it in less than a half hour probably) until it changes your life!

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Jesus Christ, the Son of God, entered human history to give his life as a ransom for many (Matt 20:28; Mark 10:45). In practice he maintained the essentially Gnostic dichotomy between the material world as evil and the spiritual as good, rather than living out his ideal of serving God in everyday occupations like washing dishes and serving food, he chose the supposed higher path of the monk. Why on earth should we stick your neck into the endless and fruitless power games of the world, to be dominated and victimized again and again by their and your endless Shadows? One winter, while still a soldier, he happened to gaze upon the bare branches of a tree, and he knew in that instant not only that its leaves and its fruits were certain to arrive, in good time, in the coming spring and in the summer, but also that grace would surely bring him to a flowering and a ripeness too.

God will not permit a soul that desires to be devoted entirely to Him to take pleasures other than with Him. I found this biography to be so inundated with bad theology and an almost worshipful view of Brother Lawrence that it left a severe distaste of the entire book. To be honest, the only reason I read this book is because it was included in the same volume as the afore-mentioned book on prayer by Andrew Murray. God does not come to us needy and wanting, but rather he comes to “revive the spirit of the lowly and the heart of the contrite” (Isa 57:15).

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As evangelicals, we talk a lot about the presence of God but seldom look to the Bible to see what it is.The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection is, to borrow a phrase, a book for transformation and not merely information.