Pleased to Praise

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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🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

If God loves us enough to make our joy full, he must not only give us himself; he must also win from us the praise of our hearts.

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0:00.0	August 22, pleased to praise.
0:04.2	Let the people's praise you, O God.
0:06.6	Let all the people's praise you.
0:09.8	Psalm 67, three and five.
0:13.2	Why does God demand, we must praise God?
0:19.0	See us, Lewis.
0:21.8	Just as men spontaneously praise whatever they value,
0:26.7	so they spontaneously urge us to join them in praising it,
0:31.2	isn't she lovely, wasn't it glorious?
0:33.7	Don't you think that magnificent?
0:36.6	The psalmist in telling everyone to praise God
0:40.5	are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.
0:46.6	My whole more general difficulty about the praise of God
0:50.1	depended on my absurdly denying to us
0:53.2	as regards the supremely valuable,
0:56.1	what we delight to do, what we indeed can't help doing
0:59.9	about everything else we value.
1:02.7	I think we delight to praise what we enjoy
1:05.9	because the praise not merely expresses
1:10.6	but completes the enjoyment.
1:13.2	It is its appointed consummation.
1:16.9	It is not out of compliment that lovers
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