Book Review: Letters by Modern Mystic

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Letters by A Modern Mystic
Frank C. Laubach 

5 Stars! Frank Laubach is genuine and passionate about keeping Jesus in his mind. If you are wanting to step up your discipleship to Jesus, but don’t know how, then this is the book for you. It logs the journey of Frank Laubach during his missionary stay in the Philippines. He journals about his experiment to keep Jesus in his mind all day.

His plan is outlined in the second half of this book called “Game with Minutes.” His goal was to think a thought about Jesus once every minute of the day. Sounds crazy huh? But he started out small and worked his way up. He first started with every hour and then worked his way to a minute. He found this way of life to be absolutely wonderful and transforming. 

This book is practical and passionate. Rarely do you find both in one single book. Please pick this one up. It’s only 121 small pages. You can easily read it in a weekend or on a long plane trip. It would also make a very good perennial read. Although it’s a small book, it’s a huge challenge he sets before us. It is only by the grace of God we could attain such an amazing level of focus on the risen Lord. Obviously, the Spirit of God has an enormous part to play and as Frank says,

“My part is to live this hour in continous inner conversation with God and in perfect responsiveness to His will, to make this hour gloriously rich. This seems to be all I need to think about.”

 

This Hour Can Be Heaven

I would like to highly recommend this book to all. If you have struggled with how to keep your mind fixed on Jesus, then this is the book for you.  It is an amazing tool in helping you accomplish that purpose. There are many things that I have already put into practice from this book and it is helping me gain ground. This book is personal and practical. It contains, first, letters from Frank Laubach to his dad and then his other small book, Game with Minutes. So you have the opportunity to see Frank’s heart behind his method. I will leave you with an excerpt from his letter dated March 9, 1930…

“Clearly, clearly my job is not to go to the town plaza and make proselytes, it is to live wrapped in God, trembling to His thoughts, burning with His passion. And, my loved one, that is the best gift you can give to your own town. I look up at this page and it is not red hot as my soul is now. It is black ink. It ought to be written with red ribbon. You will not see the tears that are falling on this typewriter, tears of a boundless joy broken loose.

The most wonderful discovery that has ever come to me is that I do not have to wait until some future time for the glorious hour. I need not sing, ‘Oh that will be glory for me’–and wait for any grave. This hour can be heaven. Any hour for any body can be as rich as God!” 

Letters by a Modern Mystic
Frank C. Laubach
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