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Why Fame Cannot Make You Happy

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2015

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

We can use social media as a tool for good, but all too often, the likes and retweets can consume us. How do we get sucked in so easily?

Transcript

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0:00.0

On Instagram, most of us are happy of 20 or 30 people like any given picture that we post.

0:11.5

We're back with hip-hop artists Tripley and Trip.

0:13.7

Some of your pictures go over 10,000 likes on Instagram.

0:17.8

Social media stats like these beg us, just beg us to compare ourselves to everyone else

0:23.2

and to quantify our popularity, which of course is pure vanity.

0:28.4

So speak to nobodies, like me, about fame, and particularly about this idea that popularity

0:34.0

is the key to happiness.

0:36.3

Speak to us from the inside.

0:37.9

Yeah, I think that is one of the really dangerous things about social media is with all kinds

0:42.6

of hearts that love the praise of men, it's always been that, but now, as you said there,

0:47.7

here's this kind of automatic way that I can at any moment know exactly what people think

0:53.3

about what I just said or what I just did or this picture that I just took.

0:56.7

But I don't have to wait to ask anybody.

0:58.6

I can second by second see how many people think it's impressive.

1:03.2

And from my side, somebody who has a larger social media following, I think the main thing

1:07.7

I want people to know is that no amount of likes really satisfies.

1:11.9

There's no like, okay, when I get that 10,000 likes, that's when my heart is really satisfied.

1:17.2

And we see principles like this in Scripture, Solomon says, and I think it's clearly that

1:21.9

he's five.

1:22.9

He who loves money will never be satisfied by it.

1:25.5

That's because we'll always want more, you know, vanity chasing after wind.

1:28.9

And I guess you could really say the same thing.

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