Book Review -- From Heaven Above

This review is for an Advent devotional, although I am getting this in just before we begin the Lenten season.  Just call me a slow reader.

The title, From Heaven Above, suggests that this volume focuses on the Christmas account.  While that is included, the focus is much more about God's people waiting for God to fulfill his promises.  The waiting them is evident in the first half of the book, detailing how God's people waited throughout the Old Testament for God to fulfill his promise of a Savior.  The second half of the book focuses on how God's people are waiting for Jesus' return and the glory of the heavenly kingdom to come.

Each chapter is only three pages, making the daily devotions easy to complete.  (There are 50 devotions on 159 pages, paperback, $18.99.)  Each devotion also concludes with a prayer.

With fifty devotions, it exceeds the length of the Advent season.  If you begin the daily devotions on December 1 (a suggestion in the Foreword), you will get to the Christmas account at Christmas time.  Then you can meditate on the waiting we are enduring after Christmas as we long for Christ's coming again.

The theme of waiting throughout the book reminds us today that we are not unique among God's people.  God has always called on his people to await his salvation.  Just as he was faithful to his promises of the past, so we remain confident that he will be faithful to his promises of future glory.  So, we pray.  We ponder.  And we wait.

NOTE: The opinions expressed in this post are those of the author in exchange for a free copy of this book provided by Northwestern Publishing House.