Reviewed by Philana Crouch

Many Christians desire a closer relationship with God, but feel like they are missing something. They follow the formulas and read the Christian Living books found at their local Christian bookstore. They read their Bibles and pray their prayers and know something's missing. But what? Skye Jethani proposes in his book With that what's missing is how we relate to God.

Four Postures

Jethani delves into four postures or ways we relate to God that are unhealthy and definitely unbiblical.

Life From God - people desire things from God, but have no interest in God Himself.
Life Over God - if you do the "right things" God will have to do what you want.
Life For God - the focus is on doing lots of things for God.
Life Under God - live a righteous life and everything is supposed to go well.

A Fifth Way

Jethani proposes that what is missing is Life With God, where the focus is on desiring and treasuring God. He describes it powerfully by connecting it the Book of John.

The opening verse of John’s gospel is one of many texts in the Scriptures that support the Christian belief in a trinitarian God. The Trinity, the notion of one eternal God existing in three persons (God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit) is a foundational, and admittedly mind-twisting, doctrine of Christianity. But it is also where LIFE WITH GOD finds its origin. The Trinity reveals that we worship a relational and personal God. He is not an impersonal force as some Eastern philosophies teach, nor is he a disinterested creator as Enlightenment deism has advocated. The Christian God is a personal deity who exists in eternal community with himself. (pg. 13)

Life With God is based on desiring that personal relationship with the Creator...a return to the Begininng...to Eden! It's a journey worth taking!

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