Amazing Grace

Metaxas once again delivers a biography of high literary quality and one which will have you absorbed in the life and times of William Wilberforce as if you were actually present during the time period in which he lived, and as though Wilberforce was actually a friend of yours. This account of his life and how he fought to abolish the detestable and horrifying practice of the slave trade in Britain, will have you feeling his pain in his defeats and rejoicing with him in his victories. His life, which came to be centred around a most authentic faith in God and revolved around his love of God and of his fellow humans remains to be a fine, fine example of how our faith in God should inform every aspect of our lives and shows how having a personal relationship with God can overflow into the world around us to make it a place where God's will is done on earth as it is in Heaven. 'Amazing Grace' will enthral you as the extraordinary life of William Wilberforce seeps of the pages and into your life. This is a book which I can truly say that I am certainly better off having read it. It has inspired me, especially in my faith and to see what a life given to God yet still remaining 'in the world and not of it' can achieve.