God Has Been Pursuing You All Along | Sadie & Christian Huff

In the deer stand, Christian Huff finished reading his wife Sadie’s book manuscript the night before he was scheduled to interview her about it. She had been nervous he hadn’t read it. He had, and the first thing he said on the podcast was that he went in expecting a book for women, but found himself tearing up instead. That personal moment—a husband encountering his wife’s writing about encountering God—is the exact kind of shift the book is built around.

The woman at the well as a mirror

Sadie Robertson Huff’s book It’s Not Personal uses the biblical story of the woman at the well as its organizing framework, but she arrived at that story reluctantly. She had been studying insecurity and wanted a scriptural example of someone literally looking into a mirror. She Googled it. The Holy Spirit kept nudging her toward the woman at the well, and she kept resisting because the story felt over-preached. Then she remembered that the word “mirror” in ancient Chinese originated from “water”—the first mirrors were rivers and wells. She pictured Eve leaning over a river in Eden, seeing her reflection and thinking, “We are so beautiful. We’re made in the image of God.” Then she pictured the Samaritan woman, years later, at noon in the heat, pulling up water and catching a glimpse of herself and feeling like she had ruined her entire life. Five marriages. An outcast. Avoiding the ot