No Greater Love
By Levi Benker and Candy Chand
Review by Pat Beaty
Christian, do you love widows and orphans? God does. Read the Holy Bible and you will see.
The man who wrote this book does too. He speaks briefly but wonderfully about
widows; and this book speaks volumes about loving orphans. But this isn’t all – not by any
means. This book is about God and
his forever love for all of us, all of the time.
It tells us about a man whom God allowed to fail in what he
felt was his life’s work before being called by our Lord to the career he was
meant to follow. This book is a
true story that catalogs many of the moving encounters that one man and his
family have with some of the most sweet and engaging children in the world:
youngsters and newborns in Ethiopia.
In a secondary plot, the reader is witness to the author’s disappointment
with, and then deep faith in, God.
You will have to have a heart of stone to keep from being
touched by the author’s exhilaration when he finally understands that he does
not have to do it on his own strength – that God is here to help and has been
all the time. You will not be able
to overlook the way his compassion for the Ethiopian people, and especially the
plight of the newborns that our Lord has given him to care for, is so
beautifully expressed.
You cannot help but react to this book. It will not leave
you in peace. If you are anything like
this reviewer, when you finish this work, you will sit quietly for a few
minutes and think about what you have just read. It is unlikely you will ever forget the journey you have
taken with this author over the difficult trails of the African jungle to save
the lives of a host of little folks that God has put here.
Do you remember the words of the song: “Jesus Loves the
Little Children – All the Children of the World”? Read this challenging book of
love and trust, and then answer my earlier question – do you love widows and orphans?
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