Tuesday, December 9, 2008

John Piper is a smart man.

Yo party people.

John Piper is indeed a very wise man, and one who knows the heart of God intimately; yet probably not nearly the level of Moses or David or any of the other saints. But gosh dang, this guy just melts your face off every time you hear or read something from him. 

Case in point: I just started reading "When I Don't Desire God" by Piper not three days ago, and am only on the second actual page of the book (the forward doesn't really count, like a middle school girlfriend or boyfriend: not an actual relationship) and Piper has already melted my face. For your reading pleasure, since I haven't heard of this book being read much at all (in fact no one that I know has read it...) this snippet.

"Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do what a heart cannot make itself do, namely, want what it ought to want. Only God can make the depraved heart desire God. Once when Jesus' disciples wondered about the salvation of a man who desired money more than God, he said to them, "With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God" (Mark 10:27). Pursuing what we want is possible. It is easy. It is a pleasant kind of freedom. But the only freedom that lasts is pursuing what we want when we want what we ought."

Check out that last sentence, chew it up, mull it over, let is wash over you, other overused 'thinking' sentences...let me know some thoughts. Talk it over with friends. 

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