Living for God and Not for Ourselves

If you want to stop the drama in your life then it has to be God?'s way . Those are the words of a woman who overcame a host of personal challenges to share her testimony in these pages, Living for God and Not for Ourselves. Andrea Marciele Jackson offers a candid, witty, sometimes humorous but always Word-directed account of what it means to make a commitment to the Lord. And she does this by giving us a very user friendly prescription to follow.Andrea?'s prescription is found in the problem. She shows us, for instance, how easily we can wrap a lie in to another lie when the sin of adultery gets hold of our life. And how, despite being a victim of childhood sexual abuse (the cause for so many problems later in life), one can still find her way to Christ . The emotion from abuse is one of the darkest, deepest emotions one can have. Our only hope is in God; we must trust in Him fully to see us from start to finish. She talks about the healing and redemptive power of maintaining celibacy as a sure fire counter measure to the temptation of fornication. She tells us that learning to love one?'s self and respecting one?'s self and learning to preserve for marriage God?'s highest blessings that are found in the form of sexual intimacy, is a lesson each Christian should and can apply in his or her daily walk with the Lord.Idolatry, anger and jealousy, are also the stumbling blocks that Andrea gives us clear, scripture-based solutions for addressing. Living for God and Not for Ourselves is the kind of book that will be a needed word of encouragement and confirmation for the seasoned believer. And for the new or soon-to-be new Christian, the message of salvation is as honest and compelling as the scriptures themselves. There is something for everyone in these pages.