Demon - A Memoir

It's been a very long time since I have done anything similar to a book report - and hopefully - this doesn't come anywhere close to being one.  However, I recently completed a book titled: Demon: A Memoir written by Tosca Lee.   I will admit that I approached this book with some sceptisim given the approach taken in writing this book - but it is a very good read and one that I found - I couldn't put down.

The story revolves around a character named Clay.  Clay is - more or less - just an ordinary guy.  He's been throught a divorce, has more than he can handle at work and is really searching for answers.   Things pick up when a mysterious meeting invite shows up in Clay's email.  This is where Lucian - the demon - enters the story.  Lucian has chosen Clay to tell his story to and expects Clay to write it down and publish it. 

It's from here that the story really takes off - and I don't want to spoil it for anyone.  However, Lucian does appear to Clay in several forms to tell the "demon's side of the story."  Tosca Lee keeps this book tied to scripture and at the end of the story provides the scriptures she used as a basis for many of the areas discussed in the book.  These areas cover the the time before the creation story, the fall of satan and his demons, the crucifiction, and a few other areas. 

On a side note - I did want to follow up on a point I was attempting to make in my prior posting.  In it, I was trying to express why God doesn't want us to live in fear of jugement and last night I was reading a book on Angels written by Billy Graham.  In this book, I have found exactly the point that I was trying to express.  To quote it: "Do you fear the judgement of God?  Or do you know that Christ has taken your judgment upon Himself by His death on the cross?  When you know Christ, you need not fear God's judgement, for He has full purchased your salvation."   I thought this point summed things up perfectly.  To know Christ is to know peace.  That doesn't mean that we as christians are perfect - far from it, but it does mean that we are covered by God's grace and that is enough. 

If anyone is interested which book from Billy Graham I'm talking about it's titled Angel's God's Agents in Judgement.