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I came across this quote while reading this afternoon. A stunning, joy producing picture drawn by John Piper. To see God like this is why we where created. To delight in the the glory of God is the highest delight possible. All other delights compared to the glory of God are like a burning match compared to the blazing glory of 10 billion stars.
From all eternity the ever-existing, never-becoming, always-perfect God has know himself and loved what he knows. He has eternally seen his beauty and savored what he sees. His understanding of his own reality is flawless, and his exuberance in enjoying it is infinite. He has no needs, for he has no imperfections. He has no inclinations to evil because he has no deficiencies that could tempt him to do wrong. He is therefore the holiest and happiest being that is or that can be conceived. We cannot conceive of a happiness greater than the happiness of infinite power delighting infinitely in infinite beauty in the personal fellowship of the Trinity. - John Piper from the book “Preaching the Cross”
“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.”
(Luke 12:32 ESV)
God does not begrudge giving us the kingdom. With omnipotent pleasure God wills to give His children all that He is. What a stunning, wonderful and glorious truth this is. Our unstoppable God will succeed in bringing to pass what brings Him pleasure.
Quotes from the book. “Overcoming Sin and Temptation Three Classic Works by John Owen”
“He that would be little in temptation, let him be much in prayer”
“Let them take heed of self-confidence who have any mind to take heed of sin”
“Let him that would not enter into temptations labor to know his own heart, to be acquainted with his own spirit, his natural frame and temper, his lusts and corruptions, his natural, sinful, or spiritual weaknesses, that, finding where his weakness lies, he may be careful to keep at a distance from all occasions of sin”
