Glory That Satisfies the Soul

Light + Truth

Desiring God

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Why do we seek beauty and greatness? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper shows from 2 Thessalonians 1:9–10 that we were made to marvel at Christ’s infinite glory.

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0:00.0	Why do we watch the World Series?
0:07.0	Why do we watch gymnastics when the Olympics rolls around?
0:12.0	Why do we go to the Grand Canyon?
0:14.0	Why do we go to the Alps?
0:16.0	Why do we go to the ocean and look out over?
0:19.0	Why do we want to get near bigess and beauty and magnificence and excellence?
0:24.6	It's because that's what we were made for.
0:28.6	We were not made for mirrors.
0:30.6	We were made for standing in front of what is infinitely beautiful
0:34.6	and having it so satisfy us.
0:39.3	It's kind of amazing how the biggest moments of joy in life, in my life, often come when we're not thinking about ourselves at all.
0:50.3	When we're just taking in something majestic or absolutely stunning.
0:56.6	I'm Dan Krover.
0:58.4	In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper invites us to consider what that tells us
1:05.0	about our souls and about the God we were made to enjoy.
1:10.0	This message was originally delivered at the Bethlehem Baptist Youth Retreat in the winter
1:16.2	of 2004.
1:17.6	We started with creation and all that is, God put it forward for His glory.
1:26.9	We take the middle of history, the cross, and that's for His glory, and now we go to the end of history.
1:33.3	Listen to the way Paul describes the reason Jesus is coming back.
1:37.1	I wonder if we did a survey in this room and said, now why is Jesus coming back?
1:42.4	What would we answer? What would our answers be?
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