Know You Are Beloved: Press Pause, Breathe Deeply, and Be Known by God

by Chris Lee

In Know You Are Beloved, popular Instagram influencer and English priest, Rev. Chris Lee, helps you escape the chaos and focus on who you are before God.

When was the last time you took a deep breath and pondered how God delights in you?
We live in a unique time. Our days are filled with images, text, and noise, continually streaming from a screen that all of us obsessively carry. It weighs us down. Its beeps clamor for our attention, and all of this distraction is wearing us thin. We have been through—and are going through—a great unsettling in our world. What once satisfied simply doesn’t anymore. We are united in a sense of our own fragility. We have been shaken, and this has left us startled and dazed.

With a series of short chapters, Rev Chris Lee takes you on an inspiring journey to meditate on essential truths that help you live your life with purpose and serenity, secure in the knowledge that your identity and worth are found in Jesus’ love for you.

Know You Are Beloved can help
sit still,breathe deep,pause the chaos,and, enter God’s loving presence
A few years back, Rev. Chris Lee started sharing his thoughts about the time we are living in on Instagram in short sixty-second sermons. People resonated with the spiritual break that he was offering on social media. That’s when he decided to write a book that would help people to fight back, put down their phones, sit before God, and know they were his beloved. Each chapter seeks to refocus you on simple yet profound truths of the faith, borrowing from the great lessons from Christian history. Each succinct chapter ends with a place to breathe deeply and sit in silence—a welcome opportunity to calm your spirit and turn your gaze to God. The book will take you into a deeper place with your faith, more secure and more intimate.

You can find peace, security—more fullness in your life.
You can find wholeness and healing.
You can know beyond a shadow of doubt that you are seen—and that God delights in you.
You are his beloved.

Genres: Christianity

212 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 3, 2024

Reviews

[Erin Kerry · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a short book but contains powerful reminders, so I took my time reading through it. I finished it right when I needed to. Highly recommend if you struggle to remember how deeply God loves you and cares for you.

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

While The OMG Effect feels like it was written for those curious about Christianity, Know You Are Beloved is like an intermediate course. Each chapter is broken down to make a nice devotional that focuses on different aspects of God's love. Some chapters may be a bit more somber to read through than others, but in each one there is some encouragement in the form of a short, simple meditation by Rev Chris. There's also a lot of references to the Desert Fathers in his writing; that is almost like a subtheme in the book.
Regardless, I found this to be a refreshing read, and something to return to in times of adversity.

[Sandra Lewis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book from start to finish. After what has seemed a few years of trials and walking through a valley this book reminded me to pause and breathe. It was then I found God was still all around me. I realised I was so frantically looking for God I was missing Him because I was not being still and breathing. Because Rev Chris actually reminds us in each chapter to breathe I could hear God saying to me “Now will you listen and know it’s ok to stop, pause, listen properly and know you are beloved for who I have created you to be.”

[Ann · Rating 5 out of 5]

Know You Are Beloved is an absolutely beautiful reminder of God’s love and devotion to his followers. Reverend Chris Lee uses his many gifts and talents to create a guide for living in peace with God, peace with community and peace with oneself. Slowing down and breathing are repeated throughout the book, reminding the reader of the importance of living in the moment, living with one another and living in God’s love.

[Fr. Andrew · Rating 2 out of 5]

Such a bummer. This book was lovely and uplifting until the last leg of it started, and our author took a legalistic turn and took this tangent about the "heresy of Gnosticism" and God explicitly tells us in Leviticus to not use Tarot Cards or whatever.

Sorry, pastor. You can't tell us to breathe and know we are loved and be rigidly obedient to the Levitical code at the same time. I just couldn't take this book seriously after that.

[Jennifer Cook Nafziger · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a great reminder of God’s deep love. It’s a great book to read in short daily or weekly pieces.