One of the things the Lord is doing in the darkness of your life is fitting you to be able to bear more fruitful witness to his mercies when you come out.

When life is hard, how do you maintain your joy?

In this episode of Light and Truth,

John Piper shares several biblical strategies

to help you fight against joylessness.

This message was originally given

at the Desiring God Regional Conference

in Greenville, South Carolina

on August 20, 2005. All sin comes from perceiving something as more delightful, precious, beautiful, attractive than Christ.

All sin comes from that.

Therefore, when you're in a sin, doing a sin, you're in darkness. And in

darkness you can't see the beauty of Christ as clearly. So sin comes from blindness and keeps you in blindness and therefore do whatever you can to go on the warfare against all known sinning.

If you have a little pocket of sin in your life, this little thing you know is wrong

and you cherish it. And over here you just want to be happy in Jesus, oh please make me happy in Jesus

and it's not working.

There's a reason.

There's a reason.

God is saying kill that, fight that.

I hope you fight that.

And as you fight it, more light will go on in your

Sight of my glory

And I asked my dad I said I'm writing a book this a couple years ago, I'm writing the book on fighting for joy.

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