We have a mindset that if something is really important, if it has true moral value, then we need to be cautious that we don't enjoy it too much. We are hesitant to seek our own happiness out of concern of selfishness, and we often settle for far less than what God wants us to receive and enjoy. The following is from The Weight of Glory and Other ( Read more... )

From Reflections on the Psalms in which C.S. Lewis in 1958 (and re-quoted in John Piper's 1986 book Desiring God) wrestles with the fact that God not only wants our praise, but also commands it:

But the most obvious fact about praise - whether of God or any thing - strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the ( Read more... )

A quote from John Piper: "It is a great sadness when sufferers seek relief by spariing God his sovereignty over pain. The sadness is that this undercuts the very hope it aims to create."

The great purpose of life is to magnify - whether by life of by death - the One who created us and died for us and lives as Lord of all forever, Jesus Christ.

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