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A review by bickleyhouse
Fearfully and Wonderfully: The Marvel of Bearing God's Image by Paul Brand, Philip Yancey
5.0
Thanks to Dr. Paul Brand, I have learned to look at pain through new eyes. Dr. Brand spent most of his life serving leprosy patients in India. The main issue with leprosy is that the patient cannot feel pain. They don't lose limbs because they simply fall of, which is what was believed when I was a child. They lose limbs because they don't feel pain and can't tell when they have injured themselves. This results in infections that can't be felt, which results, eventually in limbs being lost, and hands and feet being grotesquely drawn into claw-like shapes.
In Fearfully and Wonderfully, Dr. Brand, with some help by well-known author Philip Yancey, gives us some marvelous insight on the human body, from the skin to the brain. I learned so much about our "fearfully and wonderfully made" bodies.
Then, Dr. Brand takes this information and transforms it into spiritual knowledge as he compares the human body to the Body of Christ. Just as our body has individual cells that all have unique jobs, so the Body of Christ has individual members/cells that all have jobs to do.
I can't begin to do it justice in this brief review, but I am grateful to the Renovare Book Club for having us read this book this year.
As he is closing the book out, Dr. Brand left us with this statement. "We are what Jesus left behind." We are his hands and feet, we are his Body, left here to do his work.
In Fearfully and Wonderfully, Dr. Brand, with some help by well-known author Philip Yancey, gives us some marvelous insight on the human body, from the skin to the brain. I learned so much about our "fearfully and wonderfully made" bodies.
Then, Dr. Brand takes this information and transforms it into spiritual knowledge as he compares the human body to the Body of Christ. Just as our body has individual cells that all have unique jobs, so the Body of Christ has individual members/cells that all have jobs to do.
I can't begin to do it justice in this brief review, but I am grateful to the Renovare Book Club for having us read this book this year.
As he is closing the book out, Dr. Brand left us with this statement. "We are what Jesus left behind." We are his hands and feet, we are his Body, left here to do his work.