The All-Satisfying Object

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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

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🗓️ 1 October 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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The quest for joy is not optional, but commanded.

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0:00.0	October 1, the all-satisfying object.
0:05.4	Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart, Psalm 37-4.
0:14.4	The quest for pleasure is not even optional but commanded in the Psalms.
0:21.6	Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart, Psalm 37-4.
0:28.9	The psalmist sought to do this as a deer, pants for the flowing streams.
0:35.2	So, pants, my soul, for you, O God, my soul, thirst for God, for the living God, Psalm 42, 1 and 2.
0:47.0	My soul, thirsts for you, my flesh, fates for you as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
0:56.3	Psalm 63-1.
0:59.3	The motif of thirsting has its satisfying counterpart when the psalmist says that men, drink their fill of the abundance of your house,
1:13.6	and you give them drink of the river of your delights.
1:19.2	I found that the goodness of God, the very foundation of worship, is not a thing you pay your respects to out of some kind of disinterested reverence.
1:32.5	No, it is something to be enjoyed.
1:37.8	O, taste and see that the Lord is good, Psalm 34-8, taste, taste and see.
1:51.5	How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth.
1:59.8	As Seas Lewis says, God in the Psalms is the all-satisfying object.
2:10.8	His people adore Him unashamedly for the exceeding joy they find in Him, Psalm 43-4.
2:23.8	He is the source of complete and unending pleasure.
2:32.3	In your presence there is fullness of joy at your right hand our pleasures forever more.
2:42.9	Psalm 16-11.

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