This is a shortened version of Desiring God. Overall, good perspective on our joy being found in Christ alone, and how that aligns with our obedience!īeing Christian is not altruistic, God is our reward. How our minds get twisted to believe everything and everyone is against us! God is good for teaching me to look again at the motives of others. While I was reading that, I was being jealous about a few things and being mad at them.
It is the response on unapplauded pride.” It doesn’t come from a sense of unworthiness, but from a sense of unrecognized worthiness. “Self pity appears to be needy, but the need arises from a wounded ego. How the two sides of pride are boasting and self-pity. Something that hit me different was the part about pride.
However, if we are truly abiding in Him, then our greatest joy should be obedience in Him, and thus, if suffering comes our way, so be it! In this line of thought, we can’t let suffering lead us astray, as that is a vital element of following Christ. It reworks my thought process to the actions that I do: This approach can seem selfish, and yet it glorifies God in the most! Within all of this book, the basis of it is Christian Hedonism- if you find all joy and contentment in Christ alone, then we should pursue our own joy by seeking Christ. “In the pursuit of joy through suffering, we magnify the all-satisfying worth of the Source of our joy.” “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” Jim Elliot "The great incentive for throwing our lives into the cause of missions is the 10,000 - percent return on the investment." All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously 'as a child of the King' in this atmosphere sounds hollow - especially since the King Himself stripped for battle.” “God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the misery of unevangelized, unmedicated and unfed millions.” “The great hindrance to worship is not that we are pleasure-seeking people, but that we are willing to settle for such pitiful pleasures.” “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” by CS Lewis Really enjoyed this fresh look at desiring God.
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