This book is highly recommendable to those who want to get rid of theirspiritual and emotional
burdens such as fear,self-doubt,
pride, wishes,
delusions, and misconceptions about God .The author encourages us to reexamine our lives. What burdens do wecarry around? How many unnecessary wishes do we have?In order to get his message across, Lucado resorts to funny comparisonsand situations from his own life. His heart-warming stories are ofteneye-openers. In short chapters that are easy to understand, the authorexamines psalm 23. We learn that David wrote this psalm in order toincrease our trust in God and to show us what He is capable of.God is the shepherd who watches over us day and night. We should alwaysturn to Him first instead of expecting
advice from other people. OnlyGod can relieve us of our burdens. But we have to let go of ourstubborn desire to do everything single-handedly and to be independentof God.Moreover, we should not see sickness, loneliness and suffering toonegatively, but as a shortcut to God. In fact, when there is nobodyelse, we have to turn to Him.Instead of complaining, we should always remind ourselves that Heavenawaits us.Lucado explains that the reason for our endless brooding over pettyproblems is that our lives are not simple enough and that we don´t livein the present.Besides that, he emphasizes that to God, pride is disgusting. So weshouldn´t be too proud of our abilities because it is by the grace ofGod that we have them.As we cannot take anything with us when we die, we should say farewell to unnecessary things, ambitions and delusions.Lucado also has a valuable piece of advice for those who are ashamed ofthings they did in the past. They should stop thinking they are notworthy of Jesus and instead start following him.Another important thing is that only God´s love is perfect..So,what is the point of struggling to win other people´s attention?Why do we often think we are out of place and yearn for somethingbetter? Lucado´s answer is: Because our real home is in Heaven.