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I am pursuing joy in God when, in fact, I am in love with his gifts. I discovered what better saints than I have found before me: The full enjoyment of God is my ultimate home, but I am still far off and only on the way. Augustine put it like this in one of his prayers: I was astonished that although I now loved you . . . I did not persist
Read Chapter 1 of When I Don’t Desire God (If you don’t have a copy, the entire volume is available online as a pdf file .) How does our sinfulness keep us from delighting in God above all
May 18, 2019 · Psalm 37:4 says “Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” Many Christians, especially in the US, believe that this verse means that if we are Christians and love God, that He will give us whatever we want or desire.
Aug 8, 2021 · Our Choices Shape Our Desires: An Example. Early her senior year at Boston College, Grace Jhe, class of 2010, shared her testimony about how her choices shaped her desires. To be more specific, she was motivated in a small way by her love for God.
for the purpose of this article is God’s strong desire to lead us into a vibrant relationship with the Creator of heaven and earth. Therefore, hungering for God is a gift that God implants in the hearts and minds of those whom he seeks to draw unto himself.
graphical. Biblically, it is plain that God has appointed suffering for all His chil-dren: “Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God” (Acts 14:22). “Indeed, all who desire to live agodly life in Christ Jesus will be perse-cuted” (2 Timothy 3:12). Globally, it is increasingly plain that a bold stand for the uniqueness of
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God desires truth and his heart had been false to God. God would have him to be wise and he was from his very birth as foolish as a wild ass’s colt. Observe, then, that wide as the Poles are asunder is human nature, and what God would have human nature to be.
