A great book to regain your vision for your path in life. Where are you going? Are you even thinking about your path? A great wake up call!

I have been listening to Andy Stanley's podcast and I wanted more! This book touches on some of his talks, and it was good to see them in written words (in ebook). So often we live in auto-pilot mode, not knowing how far we have veered off-course until we get lost, or we crash. We are so easily blindsided and distracted by the competing lights in our world. Thinking about the path I am taking, where it is going to lead me, and changing course if need to - and not wait until it's too late! And trusting God to show me the path that I should take. The last chapter was really touching, and so inspiring to remain faithful to our Lord Jesus. Thank you, Andy Stanley, for this insightful book.

I have already got two other people close to me to purchase this great read from Andy Stanley. He has a way of showing and explaining things with scripture that makes it sink in. He shows and explains that each decision we make affects the outcome in one way or another of our life's journey. I did not want this book to end. Thank you for offering this title and author in your book store.

The Principle of the Path by Andy Stanley is the latest book I've received from Thomas Nelson for reviewing it.

The book is based mostly on a comparison of our lives as a road or path, with our current situations and the more desired situations as destinations on that path.

The reason we are where we are, lost or otherwise, is because we chose that particular road, and that is where that road led. It would have led anyone else to the same place had they also selected that road, and looking backwards you can see how the steps along that road led where they did.

But being lost is not a problem to be fixed with a solution, its a matter of changing direction to take a different path that leads to somewhere else. It's this direction that matters, not our intentions, and this direction is often set by where our attention is focused.

The book goes into many different aspects of this, from ways to tell a road is the wrong one before you've taken it (such as if it's against God's principles), learning to get maps from people who are or have been where you want to be instead of those who are in the same place of life that you are, and dealing with situations where the destination you desire to reach just isn't going to be reachable.

I really liked the book. While it's message isn't anything earth-shatterningly new and the author himself even mentions this occasionally, it's a good perspective check.

It's also very applicable no matter what the particular road you find yourself stuck on. Whether it's considering whether your next purchase is a step along the road to bankruptcy or towards financial freedom, or next meal is towards the path to healthy or the path toward medical issues, or less black and white goals such as relationships, the principle works the same.

Have you ever wondered how you ended up at a certain destination? You maybe asking the question, how in the world did I get here? I did not want to be here, I was intending to go here or there but not definitely not here. Does that sound familiar? Andy Stanley, in his book "The Principle of the Path" explains clearly how our intentions do not determine our destination but our direction does.

Where are we heading in life will determine where we end up. This book is a must read for middle schoolers and up. The fact is this principle applies no matter what we believe or who we are. This principle is not a respecter of persons. It just is. When we understand how this principle works we can leverage it to our benefit.

I am remind of Jesus' call to repent or change directions. If we are going down a certain path we have to ask the Lord to give us wisdom to determine if we are on the right path. Simply put, if we are not then we need to repent and change directions so we are following the ways and paths of Jesus. This book will inspire you to get on the path that Jesus has for each of us if you are not already.