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Solid Joys Daily Devotional

The Perfect City

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

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

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🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

When you desire the city of God above everything else on the earth, he is not ashamed to be called your God. Your life pleases him.

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February 13, the perfect city. He has prepared for them a city. He brews 11, 16.

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No pollution, no graffiti, no trash, no peeling paint or rotting garages, no dead grass or broken

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bottles, no harsh street talk, no in-your-face confrontations, no domestic strife or violence,

0:32.4

no dangers in the night, no arson or lying or stealing or killing, no vandalism and no ugliness.

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The city of God will be perfect because God will be in it. He will walk in it

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and talk in it and manifest himself in every part of it. All that is good, beautiful and

0:58.5

holy and peaceful and true and happy will be there because God will be there. Perfect justice

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will be there and recompense a thousand fold for every pain suffered in obedience to Christ

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in this world and it will never deteriorate. In fact, it will shine brighter and brighter as

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eternity stretches out into unending ages of increasing joy. When you desire this city above

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everything else on earth, then you honor God who according to Hebrews 1110 is the designer and

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builder of the city. And when God is honored, he is pleased and not ashamed to be called your God.

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