The world around us is filled with amazing things and amazing opportunities for each one of us. Only by really taking the time to explore them will anyone be able to find their true happiness and the true way of their lives. In this book, we follow the author through his journey and through his awakenings in discovering more of God. But what does it mean to understand your own story and to change in your own beliefs? Can a short guide on the spirit and meaning behind life and God truly help us to create a more grateful and loving spirit? It is something As a Watchman Waits, by Simon Cockshutt, hopes to discover.

As a Watchman Waits is a book of discovering more about God and about the life each person is meant to live. It is a story of giving thanks for the important and meaningful things that God has provided and of the ways in which he has been present throughout the Bible, in the souls and lives of the people whose stories it contains. This is a book that’s meant to be enjoyed one day at a time. It’s meant for you to read each chapter, a single page or maybe two or more, that depicts a different ideal and a different important aspect of life, followed by a prayer to God, one at a time. With As a Watchman Waits, you’ll be able to commune better with God and with yourself in a way that promotes your own inner peace and growth.

Simon Cockshutt’s devotional book, As a Watchman Waits, is full of short excerpts from the Bible mixed in with his own profound wisdom and clarifications of some of the teachings of God. Also found within is a man who exhibits exactly how he devotes his life to God in daily life as well as through short specific prayers that he shares with us to use if we should see fit. One of my favorite quotes can be found on page 33: “Faith is not a step into the dark. It is a step into the light.” It continues, going much deeper, but this resonated with me the most.

As a Watchman Waits by Simon Cockshutt opened me up a bit more to the world that is Christianity. I have always believed in God and carried on one-sided conversations with Him, but have never felt the urgency to read the Bible itself. The excerpts that were revealed in As a Watchman Waits brought me in deeper as a child of God. Cockshutt has this seemingly innate ability to bring you into Christianity and into the Bible without feeling at all like it’s a sermon. He talks to the reader as one friend would to another. His gentle tone and the bits and pieces of himself that ribbon through the book leave the reader with a well-rounded vision of who the man is and what he is at his very core, without telling his entire life story. As a Watchman Waits will make you feel as though you are closer to God. It is a book to be loved by all.