John Piper emphasizes that following Jesus is the pursuit of maximum joy in God, because my soul is satisfied and God is glorified. And those two things — God’s glory and my joy — are not at odds. And that’s the beauty of meditating on Him. God has sent Jesus Christ to die for my sins and to rise again, so that it’s possible for me now to have total and complete satisfaction in God forever. And when I pursue that, I’m showing that God is infinitely valuable, infinitely satisfying, so that he gets the glory and I get the joy. Meditating on Him is a practice we each need to improve. No one is perfect at this for sure.
“Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God.” - A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy
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