Publisher's Synopsis
Love! We have all thought about it. Perhaps we have questioned as to what it really is. Maybe we have struggled with it. Knew the joys and tears that some forms of love brought our way. I'm sure we have known something that wasn't really love at all. We have longed for it, dreamed of it and even prayed for it. In this, we are no different from many people whose stories are portrayed in the Bible. Love, is so complex that it's simple! In this book, we will journey with many who have struggled with, searched for, and finally embraced loving submission in their lives. They wanted the freedom to love. They wanted the freedom to choose. Still many fought, not for it, but against it. The stories of relationships, you are about to enjoy, oozes with devotion, betrayal, immorality and restoration. They carry for us, real life lessons directing us back into the heart of perfection that we once knew. We will encounter successes and failures through every chapter. Plots that unfold with every page turned! Together we will explore how life takes amazing twists and turns. We plan, we grow moving steadily towards our dreams. We think that life goes on forever! Then, disaster strikes with uncaring cruelty. We will confront truths that drip with the reality of the days in which we live. Have you ever considered divorce? It's pretty shocking to open the pages of Scripture and find one of the Bible's heroes contemplating divorce. When Joseph makes his first appearance in the biblical story, that's exactly what he is doing. Taking our journey from the Garden of Eden we will discover a word alien too many hearts. A word, so expensive, so demanding, and its price we could never naturally pay. Still along that road we must journey if we are ever to return to paradise. That road is called abandoned! It is the only highway back to paradise along which Peter had to travel! "Abandoned," is a word seen everywhere in nature and in things around us. By the command of God, the sun, the moon, the stars, the flowers, the trees, and even the grass came into existence. (Genesis 1) These and much more submitted to His word, hold in their courses as they travel through the voyage of life. God created them; and are they not all absolutely surrendered to Him? Do they not allow God to work in them and do everything He pleases? When God clothes the lilies of the fields with their beauty, is the earth not yielded up, surrendered, given over, to God as He works His beauty? Everything in the cosmos exists in abandonment to the divine. Have we ever cried out; "Stop the world and just let me of?" Still life went on and tears cascaded down our faces. Perhaps we felt abandoned by everyone around us, forsaken in a swirl of drowning emotions. How can we find our way back onto that other path where joy bursts from our innermost being? This book will carry us through the mysteries of life, past pain and despair to a joy unspeakable and full of glory. We will walk through the garden of the prophetic. The place where truth past, present and future blooms. Strolling with the great prophets of old we will share with them all that the LORD has planned from the very beginning. In the end we will journey to heaven. The sights, the sounds, the Bridegroom! The Wedding Feast of the Lamb. All are ours to discover with fresh new light and understanding. Climb the mountain of grace. Soar to the ramparts of glory. Stroll down the avenue of faith. We will soar to the heights of glory on an ever-increasing crescendo of revelation as together we explore the music of heaven. We will even, come face-to-face with God Himself and stand in amazement at whom or what we see. Is it any wonder that we will shout, sing and dance to the strains of the Hallelujah Chorus? Have you ever wondered what God looks like? He is ours to discover through the pages of His, "Symphony of Love!"
