The chapter is great. It's awesome to think that everything we do in Christian service flows from a desire to observe the glory. When I was first saved I thought the glory of God was some sort of quantity and measurable substance that changes depending on your church attendance, Bible reading and prayer life. I was under the impression that Gods glory goes up and down depending on performance. It's good that I'm wrong- we can never make God more or less glorious. Glorify God in ourselves is receiving His glory! Through reading the Word with the help of Piper's Desiring God (buy it here) it's clear that the glory of God is something for us to cherish, enjoy and savour!
I found the first point on page 8 quite challenging. 'No man will ever see the glory of Christ hereafter if he does not have some view of it by faith now'. If we don't and can't see Jesus as beautiful and ultimately attractive we are not saved. Jesus loves to wet our appetites for heaven by giving us some of His glory now.
I like what he said on page 9 about the world becoming less and less attractive until it seems dead of enjoyment. I get annoyed when Christians tell other christian to be crucified to the world without any reference to being alive with Christ and becoming more excited about Jesus and the cross .Johnathan Edwards said that in order to get rid of one passion we need to replace it with a stronger one. Becoming ecstatic about Jesus will crucify the world in the best way possible!
How has everyone else found the book?
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