In Named by God,
Kasey Van Norman shared the message what was on her heart for helping people realized
the importance of reaching out to the hurting people. Kasey has experienced her
own share of heartache and pain. During her early teenage years, her parents
went through a bitter filled divorce. Kasey started putting on a fake mask to
cover up her hidden emotions and disappointments. She felt the need to pretend and
act as if everything was going fine in her life in order to achieve acceptance.
When Kasey was a freshman she was raped by her boyfriend at the time. Kasey
knows firsthand the difficult of healing from your past where you can conquer
your future. She has struggled with finding acceptance and love, with an eating
disorder, cutting herself, and engaging in hiding her throbbing emotional pain.
But God has always been there assisting her to come out, face the truth, deal with
her past, and not letting it destroy her future.
One
of my favorite quotes was:
“Perhaps one of the greatest human misconceptions is that
it’s possible to forgive another person prior to extending love to him or her.
The hard truth is that if you desire authentic healing and a God-honoring
lifestyle, you must choose to forgive in the same way our Lord does-by
extending love first” (Page 77).
One story that Kasey shared helped me to see the wounds
that I have repeatedly held firmly to. Kasey described the event of cooking and
accidently cutting your finger with a knife. You grab a towel and able pressure
to the wound to stop the bleeding. Then you wrap it up with a Band-Aid hoping
that will fix the cut wound. Many times we refuse to seek help from others when
sometimes we desperately need to. The scenario is an analogy to how we hold onto
un-forgiveness in our hearts. This chapter showed me how I was holding onto
past hurts in my life and living by how I feel. I can’t forgive someone by
declining my love to someone who hurt me. Forgiving an enemy requires truly
loving our enemies and friends like Christ would.
I would recommend this book to everyone who is struggling
with wrong thinking and believes the lies from Satan. If you need an
encouragement book then read this book! This book contains tons of scripture
references that fellow believers need to hear and believe! This book has the potential
and impact to reveal the truth of living your life’s with purpose. Kasey has
deeply publicized her struggles she has experienced and how she overcame them. God
has turned her inner pain into something good. This book has astonishing
teachings that if applied can dramatically change your life. Being named by God
is a marvelous truth that we must let comfort our very souls!
Tyndale House Publishers
has provided me with a complimentary copy of this book.
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