“God’s glory consists much in the fact that he is happy beyond our wildest imagination.” ( ) And the stronger our admiration, the greater the influence.” ( ) We tend to become like what we admire and enjoy. This was a thrilling thought to me because I knew from experience and from Scripture that the more I focus on the glory of God, the more I am changed into his likeness. One way to see the glory of God is to see his joy.
“If he is right, I thought, then one way to meditate on the excellency of God is to meditate on his pleasures. “He said, ‘The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love.’ 5” ( ) What the church and world need today, more than anything else, is to know and love– behold and embrace– the great, glorious, sovereign, happy God of the Bible. In this theological tour de force, Piper navigates the biblical evidence to help us see and savor what the pleasures of God show us about Him so that we might become like the One we behold. It’s about the One you were made for– God Himself. Therefore we must understand “the pleasures of God.” We can only know the greatness of His glory if we know what makes him glad.
Our pleasure is the measure of our character. You don’t truly know someone until you know what makes them happy. The Pleasures of God will again put God at the center of Creation and leave you very satisfied in Him.
Fully understanding the joy of God will draw you into an encounter with His overflowing, self-replenishing, all-encompassing grace– the source of living water that all Christians desire to drink. The chapters move logically from the initial focus on God’s greatness and majesty in Himself to his grace and condescension toward us.īe most satisfied in God… because God is most satisfied in God.Įmphasizing the foundational truth that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him, Piper further explores a life-changing essential: We will be most satisfied in God when we know why God himself is most satisfied in God. This classic volume by John Piper (revised and expanded from his 1991 work) contains ten chapters, each focusing on a different but related aspect of God’s pleasure in His own character or work.
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