Book Review: How To Ruin Your Life by Eric Geiger

If there was one person from the Bible that many look to as an example for moral failure it is King David. A man who was considered a man after God's own heart and a king that wanted to honor God in everything he did. A man most would considered a good example for young people, morally feel as he slept with another man's wife and had her husband killed so he can cover up the sin he had committed.

David would not be an example of good moral character, but God has shown us the grace and mercy he shows to sinners even the discipline that was placed on David. We can also learn how not to fail like David. Eric Geiger takes the failure of David and uses it to show us how not to fail. The book is titled, How Not To Ruin Your Life.

Geiger begins his book by saying everyone of us can ruin our lives if we allow the foundation of our lives to weaken. If we simply allow any sin to creep in, we will fail. How do we do that? Geiger says there are three ways. First, if we isolate ourselves. If we are isolated from the people of God, we will prone to not be held accountable as we walk with Jesus nor exhorted to abstain from sin. Second, we ignore our boredom, which I have to be honest, did not make a whole lot of sense. What I got out of it was we must not ignore our boredom that will cause us to sin, which could our boredom to do what is right. Finally, we believe in ourselves which is a dangerous thing. We cannot trust ourselves nor trust in our righteousness.

This book may sound like a downer at times, but there is good news, we can recover. The subtitle of the book does say, "Starting Over When You Do". No matter our sin, we are not beyond God's grace and mercy. To begin our journey back, we must, like David did, confess our sins to God. We must repent of those sins and surrender everything we have to God. We also must rejoice in the forgiveness we have in Christ and look to Him as we continue to walk with Him.

I did not know what to expect from this book. I thought the title was a little strange but it does make sense once you dive into this book. This book will serve as a great reminder to all believers that we are all prone to wonder. We will have some sin that will creep and we must do what we can to kill it.

Thanks B&H Publishing Group for letting me review this book.