I am in the midst of reading "Blue Like Jazz" and although I don't think there is anything especially insightful about the book it certainly is entertaining and a very easy read. I am encouraged at least once per chapter however, and I was brought to tears reading the "salvation story" of one of the characters (keeping in mind this book is non-fiction and the characters are real, as are the events in their lives).
This is the excerpt from the book:
"Yeah. There is a part in Matthew where Jesus talks about soil, and He is going to throw some seed on the soil and some of the seed is going to grow because the soil is good, and some of the see isn't because it fell on rock or the soil that wasn't as good. And when I heard that, Don, everything in me leaped up, and I wanted so bad to be the good soil. That is all I wanted, to be the good soil! I was like, Jesus please let me be the good soil!"
As a Christian, that believes in predestination (that all people were pre-chosen by God to either be saved or be damned), I am humbled to think that I was the seed that fell on good soil. That I was blessed with the greatest gift of all in hearing and receiving Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior and as a result will be in eternity with Him. This girl's cry to Jesus, "please let me be the good soil!" is all too familiar to the christian that understands the gravity of that statement. Thank you Jesus.
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