I was reading out of Taste and See by John Piper this morning and he smacked me across the face…
Here’s what he smacked me with:
Can we say the following with Augustine?
How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose!…You drove me them from me, you who are the true, the sovereign joy. You drove them from me and took their place…O Lord my God, my Light, my Wealth, and my Salvation.”
Or are we in bondage to the pleasures of this world so that, for all our talk about the glory of God, we love televeision and food and sleep and sex and money and human praise just like everybody else? If so, let us repent and fix our faces like flint toward the Word of God in prayer: Oh, Lord, open my eyes to see the sovereign sight that in your presence is the fullness of joy and at your right hand are pleasures for evermore.
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