The Hidden Life of David

In "Rooted: The Hidden Places Where God Develops You" Banning Liebscher offers a compelling text that invites the reader to consider how God leads them along the journey of life. Necessary for God's leadership is for a person to be rooted in the ground of God's guidance. This guidance comes through prayerful devotion, through service to our neighbors, and through dwelling in God's community. Through prayer, we encounter God and discover the direction that He desires to take us. Through service, we discover God's heart and follow through on His desires. Through community we find strength for the journey as well as direction toward a common goal -- that of serving our Lord.
Overall, the ideas presented in this text will assist anyone as they consider the calling God has for their lives -- yes God has a calling for all of us. In order to answer the call, we first need to live intimately with our God.
Where this book falls short is its promise to survey the life of King David in order to explore these ideas. The life of David is touched upon through brief reviews of moments in his life as well as through quotations of Psalms that are attributed to David. Unfortunately, the stories from King David's life seem glossed over. They are included as part of a whole amongst a number of other examples from Scripture and from life. If a text promises one thing and delivers another a reader walks away disappointed. That is the case here. A reader might enter the reading of this text expecting deep devotional insights from the life of David and instead receive recaps of already familiar stories without the depth truly necessary to understand why the life of David speaks to our rootedness in God. The life of David does speak to our rootedness in God, but "Rooted: The Hidden Places where God Develops You" does not adequately explore these stories. This takes away from the enjoyment of an otherwise good book that does provide direction for those seeking to follow God.
I received this book as part of the Blogging for Books Program through Multonomah Publishing Group.

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