we are half-hearted creatures…

“Do you feel more loved by God because He makes much of you?

Or do you feel more loved by God because He enables you to make much of Him?”

 John Piper asked this question to over 50,000 twenty something’s inAtlanta,Georgia at Passion 2011.

we so easily forget that the enemy is the king of lies.

this enemy that we are all up against is perfectly alright with you getting doses of Christ.

because with only doses of Christ there is more room for self.

“self, no matter how glorious – can never satisfy a heart made for God”

John Piper made that statement in the lat four minutes of his sermon.

It is very simple.

YOU being the source of your joy will never satisfy your heart. It will not bear the weight of glory. Only one thing can bear that weight, and that is God.

When He is at the foundation of everything I do, the burden is lifted from me.

My chains are broken. & I am free.

Jesus speaks that the truth will set us free.

The truth is that, only God can satisfy our hearts.

Tuning out the lies from the enemy that say otherwise.

Finding my joy in Christ + making much of Him = freedom.

 We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
— C.S. Lewis