WHEN I DON’T DESIRE GOD
By John Piper
Crossway Books. 268 pages. £7.99
ISBN 1 904774 01 6
John Piper’s most famous book is Desiring God published in 1986, in which he argues passionately that man’s chief end is to glorify God by enjoying him forever. But what do you do when you have little or no joy in God as a Christian?
This book sets out to answer this question. It is about ‘how to fight for joy’. The author tells us that joy in the Lord is both the command of God and an impossibility for the sinful heart so it must be a gift of God’s grace. The fight for joy is actually a fight to see Christ’s glory which is the fountain of joy. The fight is necessary because the idols of this world have made us blind.
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