Book Review - Title: Loving God by Charles Colson

Charles Colson seeks and shares through the life stories of people past and present whom God took hold of them to stand out as people who loved God. An unknown-of Russian doctor became a Christian in the prison camps of Soviet Russia. He shared his new found faith with one of his patient who later went on to tell the world what he had learnt there. Do you know who this patient is?

“Take up and read” were the four words that came from a voice ringing into the heart of another young man. He found his friend nearby reading the page to which the book was open – Romans 13. The word of God took hold of him and he gave his life to Christ. Do you know who this young man is?

Also Charles writes about the testimony story of several ladies who set up an apartment house near to the State prison. The intent of this initiative was to provide housing at a cheap rate for visiting families of those imprisoned.

Another woman, depressed, prayed to God to take her home. She heard these three words in reply: “WRITE TO PRISONERS”. She wrote in obedience to a prison she knew about and her letter writing became a bountiful blessing to those inmates.

Indeed, through these stories and others found in this book, Charles Colson urges us to be active lovers of God.