With: Reimagining the Way You Relate to God

This book addresses points I've wrestled with over the years. It's easy to have a quick answer, to quote a scripture, and to presume to know God's opinion on so many things and people. Most of us want to be in the know and have control over it all. Most of us would not have the character of Job to trust God when we don't understand. I don't say that to shame us, only to speak the truth of where we are. Most of us want to be rescued if we do right, pray right, or believe right.

I needed to be reminded that is exactly where I need to be. To let go and trust God to be in control while I look for ways to simply be with Him. To speak honest truth about my thoughts and feelings. To stop and listen. To invite Him to be part of every part of the day.

This is a book I can see myself coming back to more than once. Thank you, Skye Jethani for reminding me that life with God is the greatest treasure in the universe.

We are using the wrong prepositions when we think of God, author Skye Jethani tells us in this new book, With. We are trying to live life under God, over God, from God, or for God, but God does not desire any of this. God wants us to be with Him.

Jethani outlines the errors in our thinking that lead us off, desperately trying to live under or over or from or for. He shows all the destructive ways we end up living by trying to have a relationship with God using the wrong preposition. Then he shows ways that we can live fully with God, in a rich life with faith, hope, and love.

I question why Jethani chooses the wrong conjunction. He seems to believe God wants us to choose to live under Him or over Him or from Him or for Him or with Him. Isn't it possible that we live under Him and over Him and from Him and for Him and with Him? (Though, perhaps, I am imagining that God would not really want us ever living over Him....)

He includes a useful appendix that reveals ways to live with God. There is also an appendix with discussion questions for group work using the book.