Corey Shannon's Reviews > Thirsting: Quenching Our Soul’s Deepest Desire

God not only loves you. He wants you.

If I could boil this book into one sentence, it would be that. A simple statement, but one so profound for our understanding of God, ourselves, and the world we live in.

This book, both for those long steeped in Christian spheres and those only recently exposed to the Gospel, is a refining of the concept of desire that tends to be unfairly married to sin management within modern churches.

Reclaiming desire and longing is a holy pursuit, and this book seeks to invite the Church into a life that more honestly reflects the vision of the patriarchs and matriarchs that have paved the way for the body of Christ by passing these concepts through the filter of God’s own love - a love that is constantly giving over of itself for the sake of the other.

Strahan has been gifted with an uncanny ability to translate his gentle and compassionate demeanor into his writing. Because of this, each chapter produces a dialogue that invites the reader to share in a conversation about the deepest parts of oneself, making it natural and normal to approach such realities rather than avoiding them as taboo topics which we tend to do all too often in the church.

For those numb and with a faint flickering flame for God, read this and be reminded of His longing that never fades. For those addicted and stuck in patterns of turning away from God, read this and be reminded of His love that eternally chooses you regardless of what you say or do. For those seeking more of the Divine, read this and be reminded that the depths of love are unsearchable, and God only waits for your yes for further and deeper.

I read this in the midst of a particularly monotonous, exhausting, and numb season. And yet I was reminded I cannot conjure up a love that has always been moving toward me. A Love that not only loves me because I am His creation, but because He wants me, and longs that I feel that same longing for Him.