Review: I thought I KNEW HIM
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 19, 2013
I am so old that when I attended school my public school teachers legally prayed and read the Bible each morning. One of those teachers taught us a bit about St. Patrick.Mrs. Campbell said he had been captured as a slave from Great Brittain and brought to Ireland, but escaped. After a few years living at home God put it on his heart to return to the land of his slavery to teach the Irish about the one true God. He used a shamrock to explain how God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are three parts of the same being. And there's a story about him driving all the snakes from Ireland.I thought she had hit the high points until I read this book. I was amazed at the miracles attributed to him, some even before he could speak. I learned that he wasn't able to just pack up and go on a mission trip to Ireland just because he felt like it. And I learned he was quite undereducated for the office he was appointed to.That really hit home when I was three-fourths of the way through the book. Patrick made three requests of God. That first request had been made of Jesus Christ by the mother of two of His disciples. He denied it and told her, " The last will be first, and the first will be last." If Patrick had truly known the Bible, he wouldn't have made that request.But God on high still gave Patrick the ability to work miracles after he was able to return to Ireland, many, many miracle.I'm surprised the book does does tell exactly how he used the shamrock. Maybe the author expected us to know already.I learned a long time ago from my 3rd grade teacher.