Christian hedonism. Well, I learnt this word just this week. John Piper summarised the notion like this, "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him".
It blows me away. It takes me more than once to understand the new paradigm that Piper suggests, and argues for. The chief end of my life is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever. How does enjoying God even look like? Like me enjoying brownies with vanilla ice-cream? Or like me loving fresh cool air on Mt Te Aroha?
Is enjoying God even 'legal'? You know how God is God and we're not suppose to take Him lightly and all that right? So enjoying Him would seem to be too light, like I'm not revering Him and giving Him the due honour/respect and the like. It seems to be a little too far-fetched isn't it? Enjoy God. How can we enjoy the one who is all knowing and all encompassing? Doesn't make sense we say.
I would like to consider it still. Is this notion for real? Or it's just another argument to please our self-righteousness/selfishness? I want to know.
Too much to digest, too much to rethink and think about. Does it make loving God simpler? I really hope so. It doesn't say too much about God if it doesn't. Yeah, I'm putting this out there.
gracey
It blows me away. It takes me more than once to understand the new paradigm that Piper suggests, and argues for. The chief end of my life is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever. How does enjoying God even look like? Like me enjoying brownies with vanilla ice-cream? Or like me loving fresh cool air on Mt Te Aroha?
Is enjoying God even 'legal'? You know how God is God and we're not suppose to take Him lightly and all that right? So enjoying Him would seem to be too light, like I'm not revering Him and giving Him the due honour/respect and the like. It seems to be a little too far-fetched isn't it? Enjoy God. How can we enjoy the one who is all knowing and all encompassing? Doesn't make sense we say.
I would like to consider it still. Is this notion for real? Or it's just another argument to please our self-righteousness/selfishness? I want to know.
Too much to digest, too much to rethink and think about. Does it make loving God simpler? I really hope so. It doesn't say too much about God if it doesn't. Yeah, I'm putting this out there.
gracey
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