Publisher's Synopsis
Incredibly this is the fourth book that I have written about how a person should live his or her life. None of the books are exactly alike even though all of them are similar. Also it was never planned to write four different books that are basically talking about similar things. But that is just how things have happened. The first book was written to tell people how they can live a blessed life. The inspiration for that topic comes from John 10:10, which says "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." The second book was written because the first book did not tell people how to live their life in such a way that they will consistently make good decisions and not have to experience a lot of unpleasant consequences. Out of that book came the so-called Proverbs life. So with those two books, I had actually talked about how to live one's life with two different goals in mind. One goal is to live a blessed life. The other is to learn how to eliminate bad decisions.
So after those two books were written, I started thinking about the feasibility of combining them into one. Have a single book that would show a person how to live a blessed life and how to make good decisions and avoid negative consequences. So that third book is about how to find lasting joy and success in this present world. The answer is to live a blessed life where the person also makes good decisions and has few negative consequences. But then, a light bulb went off in my head and I suddenly saw another book that would be like the third book but different. So this fourth book is very similar to the third book. But it is also very different. The third book was almost a merging of the first and second books into one book without a lot of rearranging or changing of the two different presentation styles. The fourth book, however, combines the first two books and actually makes the two-books-in-one look very much like a separate book in its own right. That means that I am fairly confident that there will probably not be a fifth book. So how is the fourth book different than the other three? That is an easy question to answer. This book does not talk so much about living a blessed life or about living a Proverbs life even though it will accomplish both for anyone who follows it. Instead it presents a twenty-one step program for how to live one's best life. The first eight steps can be lived by anyone whether the person is a Christian or not. The next six steps apply to people who are Christian but not fully dedicated to the Lord. The last seven steps apply to those who are fully dedicated to the Lord. The whole idea of this book is simple. There are two very important things for everyone to do. The first is to be saved. The second is to be used by the Lord to bring unsaved people to Him. The whole idea of this life is to personally know Jesus as savior and to live one's life in the way that He wants the person to live. Missing out on doing either or both of those is not living one's best life. That means that this book will show a person how to live his or her best life and to live the life that the Lord would have that person live. So it is a win-win for everyone. As a final note, this book, like the others that I have recently edited, has the scripture references in tables where they are referenced so that the reader will not have to jump all over the place or get into or out of the scriptures to locate a particular reference. Hopefully that will be helpful to those who read this book.
