“Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know things for what they truly are.”
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<b>The author of <i>Desiring God </i>reveals the biblical evidence to help us see and savor what the pleasures of God show us about Him. Includes a study guide for individual and small-group use.</b><br> <br>Isn’t it true—we really don’t know someone until we understand what makes that person happy? And so it is with God! <br> <br>What does bring delight to the happiest Being in the universe? John Piper writes, that it’s only when we know what makes God glad that we’ll know the greatness of His glory. Therefore, we must comprehend “the pleasures of God.”<br> <br>Unlike so much of what is written today, this is not a book about <i>us. </i>It is about the One we were made <i>for</i>—God Himself. In this theological masterpiece—chosen by <i>World Magazine</i> as one of the 20th Century’s top 100 books, John Piper reveals the biblical evidence to help us see and savor what the pleasures of God show us about Him. Then we will be able to drink deeply—and<i> satisfyingly—</i>from the only well that offers living water. <br> <br>What followers of Jesus need now, more than anything else, is to know and love—behold and embrace—the great, glorious, sovereign, happy God of the Bible.<br> <br><i>“This is a unique and precious book that everybody should read more than once.”</i><br>—J.I. PACKER, Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia
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John Piper
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“Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know things for what they truly are.”
“Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The comma...”
“In all of knowable reality, God is unique. He is knowable not like the multiplication table or the table of elements; he alone is knowable as the one totally in control of being known. He is...”
“... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is...”