Review: Strengthening your relationship in Christ and living with an eternal perspective
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 6, 2013
Physician and Author Richard Kelley serves daily among people that are on the brink or have breathed their last breath on this earth.  He will be the first to tell you, young or old, rich or poor, death waits for no one and all people, regardless of status have to succumb to deaths reality when it beckons at their door.  Though he accepted the Lord as a youth, he is very transparent in sharing his struggles with faith and his pervasive sense of guilt and need for repentance.In writing this book he desires to accomplish two main aims:-Help the reader understand the significance of Jesus death and resurrection and what it means for us.-Help others to grasp the reality that there is existence beyond this world and that a heart lived for Christ today will secure eternity lived in heaven.Because so many are only living for today, he cautions us that this time on earth will end and that we must weigh our desires by the affections we give toward God because heaven verses eternal separation from God are the only two options in the next continual existence.  Time, he will prove, has gone by quickly in the former events that at one time seemed to linger.He shares with the reader strategies that have proven successful in allowing him to understand and grow in his relationship with Christ.  "The more that I've read the Bible, and actively listened to faith-based CD's and those who preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the more real that Jesus and what He sacrificed on our behalf, has become to me.". Peace is found, he states, when we are able to hand everything over to God and trust He will guide and care for us.  He also shares that there is nothing one can do to earn their salvation and that the death on the cross gave us access to heaven.This book is well written in a non-judgemental way with the heart to draw the reader to Christ because tomorrow on this earth is not promised to anyone.  Author Kelley will help you look at life from an eternal perspective and hopefully make the the needed shifts to position yourself properly.  At the end is a prayer of salvation for those desiring Christ.If you are a strong believer you may want to get this resource in the hands of those new in Christ, those that do not know Christ, or others that may have drifted from relationship.  A great buy and I give it two thumbs up.