What Binds the Hands of Love?

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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🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Only one thing satisfies the heart whose treasure is in heaven: doing the works of heaven. And heaven is a world of love!

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0:00.0	March 31.
0:01.8	What binds the hands of love?
0:05.8	We always thank God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
0:10.1	when we pray for you since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus
0:14.5	and of the love that you have for all the saints
0:18.2	because of the hope laid up for you in heaven
0:23.6	Colossians 1, 3 through 5.
0:27.3	The problem with the church today is not that there are too many people who are
0:32.3	passionately in love with heaven.
0:35.3	The problem is not that professing Christians are retreating from the world
0:40.2	spending half their days reading scripture and the other half
0:43.4	singing about their pleasures in God.
0:46.7	All the while indifferent to the needs of the world, that's not happening.
0:50.8	The people of God are not so full of love to God
0:54.0	that they spend half their days in His Word.
0:57.9	The problem is that professing Christians are spending 10 minutes
1:02.9	reading scripture and then half their day making money and the other half
1:07.5	loving and repairing what they spend it on.
1:10.9	It's not heavenly-mindedness that hinders love for the lost
1:15.3	at hurting of this world. It is worldly-mindedness that hinders love
1:21.4	even when it is disguised by a religious routine on the weekend.
1:26.4	Where is the person whose heart is so passionately in love with the promised
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