To someone who has been in emotional pain for a very long time, the title of this book may sound ridiculous. After all, if healing is a choice, who wouldn’t choose to be healed right now? As you read, however, Mr. Arterburn guides you through ten choices that must be made for healing to occur. These choices must be made purposefully. They are opposed by ten “big lies” that keep people hurting and unable to move forward in health and happiness. I particularly benefited from the chapter regarding “The Choice to Risk Your Life”.
The book is done in a chapter/workbook format, so after each chapter is read, there are questions for the reader to work through, alone or with others, and additional Scripture verses assigned to read. To be honest, I don’t care for workbook-type stuff; however, I can see in this book how it might be beneficial to someone with a lot of heavy emotional work to do or a group reading together who could use guidance in their ensuing discussion of the material.
Another bit of the book that was especially helpful to me was the author’s understanding of subjective peace (happy emotions) vs. objective peace (peace in Jesus). As Christians, we are too often given the impression that we must at all times have subjective peace or we are not having faith. This mistake alone has probably caused many Christians much needless grief and pain. The understanding of the different kinds of peace is probably worth the price of the whole book right there for a lot of us.
I reviewed this book for the booksneeze.com blogger review program run by Thomas Nelson Publishers and received a complimentary copy of the book in return for my honest opinion. I’m disclosing this in compliance with the law.
You can find out more about this book here where there is a flipbook that you can look at, and also here.
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