Sandra McCollom is the daughter of Joyce Meyer, the woman in charge of Joyce Meyer Ministries. I first heard about this book on Joyce’s TV program, Enjoying Everyday Life, when Joyce interviewed her daughter. I related so much with Sandra’s struggle, that I knew I needed to purchase her book. The first paragraph begins,
From as far back as I can remember until age forty-two, I lived in a prison–not one built of bricks and mortar, but a mental prison, locked up by legalism, rules, and regulations.
By page 15, she shares,
As He removed the blinders from my eyes, I became less and less occupied with my own good behavior and self-efforts and increasingly occupied with Christ–and “the grace of our Lord was poured out on me abundantly, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus,” (1 Timothy 1:14, NIV)
For anyone sincerely seeking to please God, but is overburdened by the pressures of perfectionism and defeated daily by their own inadequacies, the message of God’s grace she shares will be warmly welcomed. She is practical in conveying the truth that the grace that saves is the same grace that sanctifies. We must only keep our eyes on Jesus!
