The other day I went to one of my favorite stores in Humble. A lady in my Bible Study class had recommended a novel and I went in search of it at a local bookstore. Once I located it, I wandered around looking to see what else I could put in my basket.
I don't have a whole bunch of time to read right now, but I do have a whole lot of material to read. I had a specific topic in mind-one to support a class I am currently teaching so I headed to the "self help" section. At one point I saw the same books or I should say a few copies of the same books.
I continued looking and observed fifteen copies of the same book! It made me wonder..."So did the book help?" You see, I do not throw books away and I rarely give my books away. I will often purchase several copies of a good book to give away if I like them that much. I often share books expecting to get them back and have always gotten them back but this was a self help book. So my question was "did the book work so well that people wanted to share them by selling them back or was the book a total flop and everybody sold them back for pennies on the dollar."
My self help book contains 66 books within a book. It gives me direction, guidance and counsel. I would not give that book away and I can assure you, you would not see it on a bookstore shelf. Looking for direction? Try God's Word.
See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. Colossians 2:8
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