Saturday, May 31, 2008

The gain outweighs the pain...

Just some thoughts for the day from John Piper's Desiring God...

Love is costly because it always involves some kind of self-denial.

Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.

Let goods and kindred go,
This mortal life also;
The body they may kill;
God's truth abideth still,
His kingdom is forever.

-Martin Luther

It seems as though the way of maximum joy and the way of fleeting pleasures are two completely separate roads...

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