Sunday, September 28, 2014

Our Joy and God's Glory

Excerpt from John Piper: Scripture: The Kindling of Christian Hedonism

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Third, the third thing to clarify in our definition of Christian Hedonism is the foundational conviction that the reason God designed us to find maximum pleasure in him because God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.
In other words, God made a world in which our supreme jubilation and his supreme glorification happen in the same experience. They are one. They are not separate. They are not in competition. God did not make a world in which we must choose between our supreme happiness and his supreme glory. In fact, he made a world in which we dare not choose between them. Choosing between them is blasphemy.
Trying to choose my supreme happiness over God’s supreme glory is a blasphemous denial that only in him is my supreme joy found. And trying glorify him without the pursuit of supreme pleasure in him is a blasphemous denial that my heart’s affections are essential to worship — a denial that my affections for God are not essential in making much of God.
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