這幾週都在讀 J.I. Packer 的 Knowing God 。原因，本來只是因為放得太久沒有讀完而已，想在令會裡完成而已。
在令會內的讀書進度不太理想。後來在令會後發生了些事，面對著自我的陰暗面、面對著前路，我對神的認識是如何的不足。這不是指書本上教條式的知識（如果是這個，我想我並不缺──至少，暫時並不缺），而是指在靈裡真實的認知和洞見。實如書中引述 J.B. Phillips 所言：Your God Is Too Small。
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Rise Up, Reading and Sleep
Admittedly, I have been buying (and reading) too many books recently — from Francis A. Schaeffer’s Escape from Reason and How Should We Then Live? to A.W. Tozer’s Submit Yourself To God or J. I. Packer’s Knowing God (and many other books that I can’t remember) — all in a single month or so.
Beside all these readings, I was trying to wake up earlier and earlier — you can imagine how packed the life would be. There is no other reason but I am feeling some kind of void, or emptiness, in my life.
“It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.” (Psa 127:2)
May I put aside the books for a while and trust LORD for this rest, for I have been longing for it?
[Book] Scandalous: The Cross and Resurrection of Jesus
I am reading D. A. Carson’s latest book Scandalous: The Cross and Resurrection of Jesus. It is much more insightful than I have expected. Quite easy to follow.
Full-text preview is available at Crossway Books‘s website. You may want to checkout the review from Desiring God as well.