my summer reading

Earlier I think I mentioned that I was reading a book by Watchman Nee, The Breaking of the Outer Man and the Release of the Spirit. There are so many things in that book are really messing with my thinking and my heart in a good way. Wow. And I’ve just been really hungry for Him in a renewed way.

This little book is amazing. I read things by these  authors that have gone on and I just have to sit back and say WOW. Nobody says this stuff now. And yet when I read it, God within me agrees and longs for me to know more of it. This book talks a lot about the outer man..our self..and the inner man..what we would call the spirit. And it has helped me see these two entities in a totally different and more complete way than ever before. And to see myself in a different way as well. I would try to share more but every time I start, the words just won’t come. It has been just so overwhelming (so why am I here blogging about it?). :-D

I’m reading the first few chapters of Jeremiah while I’m finishing this book by Nee and it has just been so interesting to see how both of them go hand in hand so easily. The beginning of Jeremiah is really focusing on just how utterly sinful we are apart from God (I could go on and on here but you get the idea). And then to read in the Nee book about our sinful nature and God’s spirit and how the two are in conflict with one another.

I just love when it’s so easy to see how God is at work to bring two works written many many years apart together. The same Spirit that breathed the scriptures to life is evident in many of these writings from our more recent past. And the truths are still the same. His Word and His Truth never vary or change. Amen.

Isaiah 40:8
The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever. (NASB)