John Piper Sermons How Do I Stop Rooting My Joy in My Circumstances?
This new teaching by Pastor John Piper titled “How Do I Stop Rooting My Joy in My Circumstances?” is what we are bringing to you to listen to and meditate on.
Pastor john tell us that God is much more committed to building godly joy into his children than we are committed to finding it. There are four suggestions for how to root your joy in Jesus and not in circumstances.
1.Get to know God’s purpose for the troubles in your life. God is much more committed to building godly joy, happiness, into his children than we are committed to finding it. And one of his ways of doing this is by seeing to it that we walk through enough trouble to make us give up on finding our joy in a trouble-free life. Get to know the passages in the Bible that teach this.
2.Form the habit of finding God everywhere. Take all the natural pleasures that God gives you, which are not sinful, and make the conscious effort to see and to savor, or taste, God himself in and behind those pleasures. In other words, the best way to keep a God-given pleasure from becoming your God is to push into the pleasure and through the pleasure to the Giver of the pleasure, who is trying to show you something about himself and how satisfying he is.
3.Make Bible reading personal. Make your Bible reading every day very personal. Don’t just think about learning how to live from guidelines in the Bible, which are important, but every day, think about what you can know of Jesus, the Son of God, and God the Father, and God the Holy Spirit — what you can know about them as persons. In other words, read the Bible to get to know the person of God.
4. Remember your coming death.
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