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How Do I Cling to God — When Life Feels Easy?

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2018

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

We’re needy people. But when life’s going well, we often forget just how needy we really are.

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0:00.0

Today we talk with our friend Jackie Hill Perry, the month of May was a huge one for her.

0:13.4

Her second daughter arrived, and her second album dropped, Crescendo, which you just heard.

0:19.4

Jackie, thank you for joining us.

0:21.8

But first, as we record this last night, we found out that the LA Lakers signed LeBron

0:27.9

James, the huge news, that's big news for you.

0:31.3

Why is it such a big news for you?

0:32.7

Because I like LeBron, and it was just so sad to see him lose.

0:37.0

I don't like, I do not like, go state, like, what a passion.

0:42.3

It is certainly sad to see LeBron lose in the finals, and I think now we can watch him

0:47.8

lose before the finals.

0:48.8

You think so?

0:49.8

I do.

0:50.8

I don't know why I live in my son, if that happens, I don't see that happening.

0:54.4

Maybe, I don't think any configuration around LeBron can beat the Warriors, but we're

1:00.0

not here to talk about LeBron and the Warriors.

1:02.6

No, we are here to talk about at Jackie Hill Perry, because you are quite gifted on social

1:07.7

media.

1:08.7

And I followed you for some time, always to great benefit myself, so I'm going to talk

1:12.7

with you over the next few days about some of your most viral tweets, but the tweets

1:16.8

that I think encapsulated is something really profound that I want you to expound on, and

1:20.5

I want you to begin today with the struggle to cling to God, to cling to God when life

1:27.2

is easy.

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