I am so grateful for getting the opportunity to read Detours
by Tony Evans. This book grabs your attention and shouts “HEY! This is for
you right now!”
Detours is a book about how God ordains the pathways of our
life, leading us to exactly what He has for us. Detours in life don’t appear to
be good or desirable, they annoy us and make us want to give up.
Tony Evans makes an excellent case for staying the course
and trusting God amidst your detours. He tells us the story of Joseph from the
Old Testament. Joseph had many things go seemingly wrong for him. His life was
a story of several trips through hardship from being in a literal pit having
been rejected and sold by his own family into slavery, to later being in a jail
cell for years because he was wrongfully accused.
However- God had a greater plan.
That’s the application for us. Our lives are not nice, neat, straight lines from point A to point B. We have trips down alleys, two tracking
it down unpaved roads, pothole-filled roads under construction and once and a while getting to experience that perfectly paved road without detours. The key
is HOW you walk through the detours in life.
On page 91, Tony says “One
of the reasons some of us haven’t gotten off our detour is we are still too
self-sufficient. We still feel like we can handle it ourselves. We think we
know the right people, or have the right money, or even work the right job. We
think that because of our own hookups, human abilities, talent, contacts, or
even our own resources- that if we just toss a prayer on top- we can get to
where we want to go.”
“It doesn’t work that
way. God doesn’t work that way.”
This book came at such a great time for me personally.
It was confirming to where God had been leading me in my own life and
encouraged me to stay the course and trust the Lord to continue to lead me one
step at a time.
I loved the alliteration Evans used in his chapter titles.
There are 16 small, easy to read chapters beginning with “The Purpose of
Detours” and ending with “The Path of Detours”.
He does such a good job explaining how sometimes our detours
have the appearance of evil. That God takes what was intended for evil purposes
and turns it into something good that glorifies Him and puts you further on the
path to your purpose in life. “Evil. God. Good.” is the pattern of many
detours. You can’t get to the good without it starting bad and God intervening.
If we constantly try to be in the way, manipulating things and try to work it out ourselves,
we will stay on that detour for a longer time than if we had surrendered our
will to God’s perfect will.
Tony Evans will give readers the answers to several crucial
questions that many of us have in life.
- “How do you find the destiny God has designed for your life?”
- “How can you make the most of the detours God has planned for you?”
- “Is there a way to shorten a detour and speed up your progression in life?”
- “What is the purpose of a detour?”
I am so grateful to Dr. Evans for writing this book, it was
so timely for me. I also want to thank B&H Publishing for the opportunity
to review this great book.
You can get your own copy by visiting http://detoursbook.com/ or Amazon
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