MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR DEVOTIONAL LIFE
By Derek Thomas
Evangelical Press. 224 pages. £7.95
ISBN 0 85234 481 3
When I read the title of this book sent me for review I was delighted. Any help I can get to enhance my devotional life is very welcome; and I guess I may not be untypical of many readers. As I scanned the contents I saw that it promised a practical manual rather than a theoretical treatise - better still. Derek Thomas uses a simple method and works it out in a day-by-day study of the 15 Songs of Ascent: Psalms 120-134. While most of us would find it difficult to give it the time required every day, over a period of a few weeks we could use its structure to our profit. So I set to with a will.
This is where it gets difficult: I was disappointed. Not totally, I have to say, because there are many helpful insights scattered through the book. And the section entitled 'For your journal' with which each chapter concludes was particularly useful. It offered many pointers to draw practical application from the Scriptures studied. But overall it failed, in my view, to achieve its worthy objective.
