John Piper: “You glorify what you enjoy. If you really love something and delight in it and talk about it because it gives you such pleasure, you make much of it. And when God is our deepest pleasure, we display him as our highest treasure.”
“Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.” Proverbs 4:23 The battle for a beautiful life is fought in the deepest fountains of being.
Anxiety blinds us to reality, and deafens us to God’s voice. No matter how anxious you’re feeling today, God promises to provide ever-arriving waves of grace.https://t.co/sO7VeecMYd
Those with humility do not seek their own honor. Yet they are the ones who receive it. (Humility comes before—leads to—honor.) This paradox is at the core of the biblical message.
The mark of wisdom is to be ready for suffering. If you aren’t, you aren’t competent with regard to the realities of life. But suffering is also a discipline for growth in wisdom. It can drive you toward God into greater love and strength or away from him into hardness of heart.
Because pride makes us overconfident and out of touch with reality, it makes us foolish. It also, according to this verse, leads to social injustice. But when the proud try to trample on the helpless, they find themselves opposing God himself.