Gavin
February 27th 2003, 03:47 AM
I just wanted to share with everyone something that God has been teaching me lately.
There is a popular Chris Tomlin song out called "enough". Here are the words of the chorus:
All of You is more than enough for all of me
For every thirst and every need
You satisfy me with Your love
And all I have in You is more than enough
More than all I want
More than all I need
You are more than enough for me
More than all I know
More than all I can say
You are more than enough for me
God is everything we could want, need, or imagine. He is infinite, and therefore he alone can truly satisfy the human thirst for joy and meaning and life and excitement and satisfaction. He is living water in a dry and barren world (cf. Psalm 63:1ff.). He is a fountain of unending pleasures and a river of delights in a world of broken cisterns (cf. Jeremiah 2:13). He is a promise of eternal and solid treasures amidst a world of ephemeral, fading, insecure treasures (cf. Matthew 6:19-20). He is absolutely all we could want. He is the "joy of man's desiring".
Every sin, I would contend, results from a lack of belief in that reality. Think about it - why do we commit sins? Why are we tempted to speak that word of delicious gossip, to cheat on that important test, to see that movie we know we shouldn't see? Because, ultimately, we don't we believe that doing things the right way is better. If we truly understood the sufficiency of Jesus Christ for our every need, commiting sin would be totally insane - we have no desire to back to slumbs when we are offered a rich banquet filled with delights!
As John Piper, an advocate of "Christian hedonism" writes, "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him." Or as C. S. Lewis wrote, "We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mudpies in the slums because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea." His next line is the clincher: "We are far too easily pleased."
God is an unending ocean of pleasure forevermore. Praise you, Lord!
Psalm 63
1 O God, you are my God,
earnestly I seek you;
my soul thirsts for you,
my body longs for you,
in a dry and weary land
where there is no water.
2 I have seen you in the sanctuary
and beheld your power and your glory.
3 Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you.
4 I will praise you as long as I live,
and in your name I will lift up my hands.
5 My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods;
with singing lips my mouth will praise you.
Jeremiah 2:13
My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
Psalm 36:8
They feast on the abundance of your house; you give them drink from your river of delights.
There is a popular Chris Tomlin song out called "enough". Here are the words of the chorus:
All of You is more than enough for all of me
For every thirst and every need
You satisfy me with Your love
And all I have in You is more than enough
More than all I want
More than all I need
You are more than enough for me
More than all I know
More than all I can say
You are more than enough for me
God is everything we could want, need, or imagine. He is infinite, and therefore he alone can truly satisfy the human thirst for joy and meaning and life and excitement and satisfaction. He is living water in a dry and barren world (cf. Psalm 63:1ff.). He is a fountain of unending pleasures and a river of delights in a world of broken cisterns (cf. Jeremiah 2:13). He is a promise of eternal and solid treasures amidst a world of ephemeral, fading, insecure treasures (cf. Matthew 6:19-20). He is absolutely all we could want. He is the "joy of man's desiring".
Every sin, I would contend, results from a lack of belief in that reality. Think about it - why do we commit sins? Why are we tempted to speak that word of delicious gossip, to cheat on that important test, to see that movie we know we shouldn't see? Because, ultimately, we don't we believe that doing things the right way is better. If we truly understood the sufficiency of Jesus Christ for our every need, commiting sin would be totally insane - we have no desire to back to slumbs when we are offered a rich banquet filled with delights!
As John Piper, an advocate of "Christian hedonism" writes, "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him." Or as C. S. Lewis wrote, "We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mudpies in the slums because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea." His next line is the clincher: "We are far too easily pleased."
God is an unending ocean of pleasure forevermore. Praise you, Lord!
Psalm 63
1 O God, you are my God,
earnestly I seek you;
my soul thirsts for you,
my body longs for you,
in a dry and weary land
where there is no water.
2 I have seen you in the sanctuary
and beheld your power and your glory.
3 Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you.
4 I will praise you as long as I live,
and in your name I will lift up my hands.
5 My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods;
with singing lips my mouth will praise you.
Jeremiah 2:13
My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
Psalm 36:8
They feast on the abundance of your house; you give them drink from your river of delights.