Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me s will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him. (John 14:21)
… so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. (Colossians 1:10)
Love him, keep his commandments and pleasing him are the keys to know him.
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。
This hymn is known as 《求奪我心》 or something like《你的靈豈非已見過他》, depends on which hymn book you use.
Hast thou heard Him, seen Him, known Him?
Lyrics: Miss Ora Rowan (1834-1879) [MP3]1
Have thou heard Him, seen Him, known Him?
Is not thine a captured heart?
Chief among ten thousand own Him,
Joyful choose the better part.2
Idols once they won thee, charmed thee,
Lovely things of time and sense;
Gilded thus does sin disarm thee,
Honeyed lest thou turn thee thence.3
What has stripped the seeming beauty
From the idols of the earth?
Not a sense of right or duty,
But the sight of peerless worth.4
Not the crushing of those idols,
With its bitter void and smart;
But the beaming of His beauty,
The unveiling of His heart.5
Who extinguishes their taper
Till they hail the rising sun?
Who discards the garb of winter
Till the summer has begun?6
‘Tis the look that melted Peter,
‘Tis the face that Stephen saw,
‘Tis the heart that wept with Mary,
Can alone from idols draw:7
Draw and win and fill completely,
Till the cup o’erflow the brim;
What have we to do with idols
Who have companied with Him?
