Book Review Selamat Mewarisi 33 Renungan tentang Pusaka Hidup

 Book Information

Book Tittle : Selamat Mewarisi 33 Renungan tentang Pusaka Hidup

Author : Andar Ismail

Pages : 122 Pages

Publisher : PT BPK Gunung Mulia

Year of Publish : 2005

Are you interested in books about life? This book might be a good one to read.

At the beginning of this book, the term nachal, which means allotment or inheritance, is mentioned.

Explained from a Christian perspective, Bible quotations serve as an introduction and explanation of the meaning of nachal which means allotment or inheritance.

It continues by explaining the word nachal from the view of the New Testament Bible, explaining about inheritance in that context.

That the Lord Jesus Christ is the heir and those who are with Him are joint heirs.

What is inherited? The inheritance is eternal life. The author in the book also explains that eternal life is not about the length of life, but into its meaning.

In the third part of the book, the author takes the topic of death, explaining it from a different dimension, stirring the hearts and souls of readers to go deeper and find out the meaning behind the word.

The truth is that death is a certain thing, death cannot be avoided, it's about how we deal with death.

Continued in the next section, an explanation of ambition, our desire to master something, achieve, have a lot of money and so on.

The author packs all these explanations through the word pursue.

Not about the things we want to achieve, but about the continuation of the dreams we have achieved.

Are we consistently doing good? Or is it the other way around?

In the 5th part of the book, it tells the story of a psychologist doing research in a clinic.

The story of the psychologist with a sick child is explained easily, in short, the child died and the psychologist felt sad.

In his willingness the psychologist felt that the child died in vain. However, a clinic worker said that you were wrong, the child had lived forever.

It is about the recycling of life, it looks futile and dry, but there is pure and holy life behind it.

Part 6 gives us a heartwarming story. It reveals a simple thing, the process of eating.

The Lord Jesus Christ invites us to eat, simply from this book I get an explanation of sincerity.

The purity of the heart of the Lord Jesus Christ, who always guards and guides us. Giving us a reflection to always be grateful and thankful, to the Father of Life.

The next section in this book, gives an explanation of the enemy. Death is an enemy, an enemy is something evil.

This section explains that in life as a Christian, we must believe that living with our Lord Jesus Christ, we will be able to defeat death.

Pulang Ke Sang Bride, is the 8th part of this book.

Taking a story from a novel, it tells about two lovers who miss each other but the situation forbids them to meet.

From the story the author gives an explanation about death, is death a gift? Or just an escape solution.

The author teaches us, to always be grateful for life and this life, to always strive and not give up, encouraging readers to continue to be enthusiastic against the swift currents of the world that sway the heart, soul, and body.

The next section in the book talks about offerings, the pure and holy offering to our Lord is ourselves.

It's about how we live, in accordance with holy and sincere commands and desires. There needs to be total surrender, pure intention, and sincere determination.

Furthermore, it is explained about the pure and the mortal, we tend to ignore the pure when there is no threat but when the threat arises we immediately change and focus on the pure.

This shows our inability to choose, life is about choices, so choose that life into purity and truth.

Benefits for readers:

This book really helps us to reflect and explore our lives well, helping us to continue to grow in the Christian life.

Strengthening our faith and knowledge, physically this book is very suitable for high school, college or adults.