Inside the Master Key
Vivian C. Campbell
ISBN: 1-4196-2443-1
ISBN: -13: 978-1419624438
262 pages
In writing Inside the Master Key, Vivian C.
Campbell has given readers a unique, inspirational book that cannot be
easily categorized. Nor will it be forgotten! Biblical truths are combined
with the realities of life in scenes that happen mostly in the main
character’s dreamlike state. Readers follow her on a spiritual journey on
the Path of Promise to the city of PID which stands for Purpose, Identity,
and Destiny. Although most of the time, she is called Dree which means pain
and heartache, her full name is Dreema. It is interesting to note where and
when the full name is used. This is one of only a few books that I have
read twice before writing a review. I did not want to miss any of Dree’s
experiences on the Path of Promise as she journeys to the place inside the
Master Key where she gets the keys to a fulfilling life. It is intense
reading designed to help readers find their own spiritual fulfillment and to
understand the many challenges they may possibly face.
The storyline is briefly interrupted by a flashback in
which readers learn about another time in Dree’s life—twenty-six years
earlier—when she traveled a road called Narrow Way, instead of Broad Way.
She was married to Gem, a man she deeply loved, and shared a life typical of
most married couples. In moving from place to place, she describes the
impact that others had on their spiritual walk.
One day Dree takes an early bus to visit a friend;
however, when the driver makes a stop in front of some cottages, she gets
off the bus to take a better look, and her plans are changed. One cottage
looks very similar to one that she and Gem had lived in twenty years earlier
with their two children, bringing back a flood of memories. When an older
woman named Angelica comes out to sweep the porch, they begin talking and
Dree accepts her invitation to come inside. She spends the entire day with
this woman who has angelic qualities, and Dree tells her intimate details
about a painful episode in her marriage to Gem. The woman ministers to
Dree, and the circumstances seem to be familiar in a way that can’t be
explained. Or can they? A year later Dree returns to the cottage
hoping to visit Angelica, but she no longer lives there. She does, however,
minister to another young woman who needs to know about God’s love.
Dree is tempted to invest in a program that would give
her earthly rewards. She attends a meeting but then realizes that she would
be wasting time trying to gain worldly and materialistic possessions that
have no permanent value. Though her eyes had momentarily taken her off the
Narrow Road, she acknowledges that she wants the rewards that would be hers
after her life on earth.
Throughout the story, Dree calls the Bible “His Book”
and refers to the beautiful man that she sees in one of her spiritual
pictures as “Him.” He tells her that she will find her place in the heart
of the Master Key and that there is much for her there. She must write
about the key. As she travels the Path of Promise, a journey that is
sometimes fearful and lonely, it is made easier by other characters she
meets along the way. They guide, teach, and encourage her.
Scripture is presented in various ways throughout the
book. I particularly thought the section on “More Than Meets the Eye” was
intriguing in which the Shepherd expresses his belief that if Adam and Eve
would have gotten to the tree of life first, they would have never eaten of
the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Some of the scripture is in
spiritual pictures, some taught, and some seen through Dree’s eyes as she
reads His Book, allowing the words to strengthen her. Readers will have a
greater understanding and knowledge of Job, Daniel, the Story of Esther,
David and Goliath and other characters and stories from His Book. There is
a trial depicted in which the defendant is found “not guilty” because he
“pleads the blood.” The prosecutor is D. Evil.
Dreema and readers will be grateful when she finishes
her journey on the Path of Promise and makes it to the city of PID, inside
the Master Key. And later, after Dreema’s funeral and a glimpse of Paradise,
readers will understand what Inside the Master Key is really all
about.
This book is a “must-read” for those persons who desire
to grow in their faith, take a new look at their spiritual life, and travel
the Path of Promise to the Path of Fulfillment.
Bettie Corbin Tucker
For IP Book Reviewers
May 31, 2008
