Joy Unbound

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Imagine being able to enjoy what is most enjoyable with unbounded energy and passion forever. One day, God’s delight in his Son will be in us.

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0:00.0	October 4, joy unbound.
0:05.1	I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known that the love with
0:11.7	which you have loved me may be in them and I in them.
0:20.2	John 1726.
0:25.1	That's what Jesus prayed the night before He died.
0:30.0	Imagine being able to enjoy what is most enjoyable with unbounded energy and passion.
0:42.2	Forever, this is not now our experience.
0:46.7	Three things stand in the way of our complete satisfaction in this world.
0:52.2	One is that nothing in the created world has a personal worth great enough to meet
0:58.2	the deepest longings of our hearts.
1:01.3	Another is that we lack the strength to savor the best treasures in their maximum worth.
1:09.4	And the third obstacle standing in the way of complete satisfaction is that our joys
1:14.1	here come to an end.
1:16.4	Nothing lasts.
1:18.0	But if the aim and prayer of Jesus in John 1726 come true, all this will change.
1:27.5	He prayed that the love with which you, Father, have loved me may be in them.
1:38.5	God's infinitely well-pleased love for His Son in us.
1:45.1	If God's pleasure in the Son becomes our pleasure in the Son, then the object of our
1:55.3	pleasure, Jesus, will be inexhaustible in personal worth.
2:02.2	He will never become boring or disappointing or frustrating.
2:08.0	No greater treasure can be conceived than the Son of God.
2:13.8	Moreover, our ability to savor this inexhaustible treasure will not be limited by human weaknesses.
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