We Honor What We Enjoy

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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

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🗓️ 8 November 2025

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It is possible to pursue God without glorifying God. If we want our quest to honor God, we must pursue him for the joy of fellowship with him.

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0:00.0	November 8, we honor what we enjoy.
0:05.0	If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath,
0:08.0	from doing your own pleasure on my holy day,
0:13.0	and call the Sabbath a delight,
0:17.0	and the Holy Day of the Lord honorable.
0:29.0	If you honor it, not going your own ways or seeking your own pleasure or talking idly,
0:33.4	then you shall take delight in the Lord. And I will make you ride on the heights of the earth, Isaiah 58, 13, and 14.
0:40.3	It is possible to pursue God without glorifying God.
0:48.3	If we want our quest to honor God, we must pursue Him for the joy of fellowship with Him.
1:01.0	Consider the Sabbath as an illustration of this.
1:05.0	The Lord rebukes his people for seeking their own pleasure on His Holy Day.
1:13.4	Turn back your foot from the Sabbath,
1:16.5	from doing your own pleasure on my holy day.
1:22.9	Does he mean that we should not seek our joy on the Lord's Day?
1:30.3	No, because the next thing he says is call the Sabbath day a delight. And in verse 14, you shall take delight in the Lord.
1:36.3	So what he's criticizing is that they are delighting in their own business on the Sabbath rather than delighting in the beauty of
1:47.0	their God and the rest and holiness that this day stands for.
1:53.0	He's not rebuking their hedonism.
1:57.1	He's rebuking the weakness of it.
2:00.4	As C.S. Lewis said,
2:01.6	we are far too easily pleased.
2:04.6	They have settled for secular interests
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