Isabella McKenzie's Reviews > Thirsting: Quenching Our Soul’s Deepest Desire

Strahan delves into conversations on desire and thirst that provide such a balanced and holistic approach to understanding God’s desire for us, and our built-in desire for God. In a culture that beckons for you to give into your desires, Strahan provides a way of understanding that doesn’t squash desire and thirst, but also doesn’t deny our brokenness and need for reorientation of our disordered selves.

Thirsting, and Strahan’s first book “Beholding”, feel like a bridge harmonizing a deep respect and love of Scripture with tangible and intimate experience of God through Prayer. He speaks of prayer so poetically, yet practically like no other book I have read.

A quote from the "Author's Note" hit hard- “Nothing has marked my life greater than my wholehearted pursuit of God, and nothing has wounded me more deeply. Because God, in His extravagant love, will refuse anything within us that would hinder us from our full engulfing in His astronomical want of us. Love, by nature, refuses to be separated in any way from its object” [pg. 15]. God desires us in a beautifully passionate way, and our thirsts are a homing beacon to Him.

As Strahan says, “if I’ve written this book right, it will be a liberating but dangerous invitation” [pg. 15]. I agree, but I think it is an invitation worth accepting because it just might transform your understanding and relationship with God forever. I know it has and will continue to do so for me personally.