This has to be one of the best books I have read this year. I read Pursuit of Godliness and I loved that book, but this book was fantastic. I have been reading “A Praying Life” by Paul Miller and to read both of these books alongside each other has been both encouraging and convicting. I know this is about Transforming Grace, but I need to say one thing about “A Praying Life.” Paul Miller shows how our prayer life parallels our walk with Christ. When we pray our prayers show our dependence on Christ and when we don’t pray it’s because we are taking matters into our own hands.
In the same way when we pray we are showing our dependence on God’s grace and when we don’t pray we are showing our dependence on our works. In reading this book I have been convicted by how much I really am relying on my works for my sanctification (the process of becoming holy) and not Christ. This book has shown me how skewed my view of grace is and what true grace is all about. One of my favorite quotes from the book is “God answered my prayer for only one reason: Jesus Christ had already purchased that answer to prayer two thousand years ago on a Roman cross. God answered on the basis of His grace alone, not because of my merits or demerits.”
