About the Author
Philip Yancey serves as editor-at-large for Christianity Today magazine. He has written nine Gold Medallion Award-winning books, including Where Is God When It Hurts, Disappointment with God, and The Gift of Pain. His books The Jesus I Never Knew and What’s So Amazing About Grace? won Book of the Year awards. He is also the author of the current best-seller The Bible Jesus Read.
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Evaluation and Recommendation
Yancey’s courage to explore his own doubts and struggles in believing the existence of an invisible God gave birth to a book that validates every rational being’s unique, both plain and profound, experience of God who never shows up his face. He allows us to question him right on his face without even saying or doing anything against us. The book encourages us to express our faith in God using our own personality.
Besides the Bible, it is a manuscript that will help us connect to a God that hides his face and seem, by his silence, does not care to listen. But that’s only as far as we, finite human being, can comprehend. The song with a line that says “love moves in mysterious way” can be attributed to God as he works in mysterious and meticulous ways!
I am afraid that I could never measure up to the high standards of a Holy God because a flawed person like me gets stumble to sin from time to time. I would even not dare to ask tough questions or even just a simple question of faith because it is an act of irreverence to his supremacy over me.
Fortunately, this book gives me hope and encouragement to explore my spirituality and to cultivate my relationship with God deeply. While aware of his presence, I will develop a discipline that will remind me to think about God as much I can. It has also prepared me in advance if I would be experiencing a season of dryness or pruning, I could still enjoy his “ministry of absence”. It has moved my faith to the next level!
This book is worth recommending!
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