Solid Joys Daily Devotional
Summary: Solid Joys is a daily devotional written and read by John Piper. These short and substantive readings will feed your joy in Jesus every day of the year. Discover more from Piper at desiringGod.org.
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Prayer ascribes to God the right and honor to be the free and sovereign God that he is to choose and to save sinners.
The prayer of the upright that delights God comes from a heart that at first feels precarious in the presence of God. It trembles at his word.
The Lord is pleased not by those who treat him as a needy watering trough, but as an inexhaustible, all-satisfying spring.
With God the honeymoon never ends. He is infinite in power and wisdom and creativity so that there will be no boredom for the next trillion ages of millenniums.
God’s anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but his mercy has a hair trigger. He is infinitely energetic with unbounded and unending enthusiasm to do us good.
God did not spare his own Son, because it was the only way he could spare us and still be a just and holy God.
Not only are spiritual gifts a work of God’s free grace in our lives, but so also is the very faith with which we use those gifts.
In order to live the radical lives Christ calls us to live, we must embrace him as the only one who can truly satisfy our souls.
Our hearts exploit our minds to justify what our hearts want. Our deepest desires incline our minds to perceive and think in a way that will make our desires look right.
If we recognize our sin, fight it, and cling to the cross of Christ as our hope, then God will hear us and answer our prayers.
Worship is all the acts of the heart and mind and body that intentionally express the infinite worth of God.
The faith that justifies and the faith that sanctifies are not two different kinds of faith.
The best news in all the world is that our alienation from God is ended. We have been reconciled to the Judge of the universe.
Be devoted to glorifying the dependability of God. Lives of faith are the great mirror of his faithful love and provision.
Open your eyes to the better country, the city of God that he has prepared for us, and let yourself desire it with all your heart. God will not be ashamed to be called your God.
