Well, the place of our loving sacrifice in relationship to our delight in God is a point

of constant discussion when it comes to Christian hedonism.

So what glorifies God more, our self-sacrifice, or our delight in God?

The question today comes from a listener named Coby.

Hello, Pastor John, thank you for this podcast.

My question is, why you emphasize our joy in God as more vital to what most glorifies

God than our love for God and for others?

The greatest commandment is love, which sums up the whole law.

God is love, the Bible says, God is not joy, not in the same way as He is love.

Isn't it better to say God is most glorified in us when we are most self-giving and loving

towards others?

I think I would respond by asking this question, which is more vital to a rainbow?

Colors or light?

Now if you would have a hard time answering that question, maybe you would see why I would

have a hard time answering the question, which is more vital to glorifying God?

Love for God or joy in God?

So let me see if I can unpack this illustration of the rainbow and then point to some biblical

passages that might shed light on what I'm trying to say.

I'm picturing a rainbow as the event of God being glorified.

And I'm suggesting that the colors of the rainbow correspond to loving God.

Now go so far as to say that the colors in the spectrum of the rainbow, red, orange,

yellow, green, blue, violet, correspond to acts of the human heart which would constitute

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