Review by Jill Hart

Joyce Meyer’s latest non-fiction release is a call to Christians to stand up and ACT. Meyer wants to wake us up to the injustice and suffering going on around the world. She calls us to to a part of what she calls the “Love Revolution” whose creed is this:

I take up compassion and surrender my excuses. I stand against injustice and commit to live out simple acts of God’s love. I refuse to do nothing. This is my resolve. I am the Love Revolution.

I was struck by what Meyer had to say in this book. She began, on page 1, with statistics that quite simply broke my heart. 963 million hungry people; more than 1 billion people earning less that 1 dollar per day; 30,000 children a day dying because of poverty – 11 million each year – and most are under the age of five.

After reading these statistics and many more that Meyer includes on page one and beyond, I was hooked. I wanted to know how to be a part of this revolution, how I can possibly make a difference and impact the lives of these hurting people around the world. Meyer’s answer: Love.

After sharing about needs of people around the world and then drawing our attention to those with needs in our own communities and even our own families, Meyer shares ways to reach out and make a difference. Some of the things she shares are as simple as allowing another driver to take a parking space that you were both waiting for (and doing so with a smile on your face) or mowing the lawn for an elderly neighbor.

She includes a chapter on how to “find out what people need and be a part of the solution.” She calls us to look inside ourselves and ask ourselves tough questions like, “How selfish am I?” and “How much am I truly willing to help others?” These are tough questions to have to face the answers to – most of us aren’t as unselfish or as giving as we wish we were.

Overall, The Love Revolution delivers exactly what it promises – ways to find a need and act in God’s love to be a “part of the solution.” If we would all read this book and live up to it’s call, what a different place this world would be!