Claim OwnershipSolid Joys Daily Devotional
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Solid Joys is a daily devotional written and read by John Piper. These short and substantive readings will feed your joy in Jesus every day of the year. Discover more from Piper at desiringGod.org.
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Why does faith not nullify the grace of God? Because faith calls all attention to grace and magnifies it, rather than nullifies it.
The worship of daily obedience is not at bottom a burdensome giving to God, but a joyful getting from God. That is the true service that God demands.
Faith nullifies boasting and glorifies grace. Wherever faith looks, it sees grace behind every praiseworthy act. So it cannot boast, except in the Lord.
1God has wise and holy purposes when he does not answer our prayers as we want. Trust him. He knows what he is doing.
The sovereign grace of God can turn the unplanned place and the unplanned pace into the happiest ending imaginable.
We can know that our sins are taken away and that we will be safe in the judgment, if we trust Christ in such a way that it makes us eager for his coming.
Patience is indeed a fruit of the Holy Spirit, but the Spirit empowers us (with all his fruit) through hearing with faith.
What feels to us like a waste is what God plans. He works through the most hopeless circumstances.
Our election is unconditional in the strictest sense. Neither our faith nor our obedience is the basis of it. It is free and utterly undeserved.
When we sit down to calculate the cost of following Jesus — when we weigh the “worst” and the “best” — he is worth it. Abundantly worth it.
Jesus knows all his sheep by name; that is, he knows them individually and intimately.
God is so eager to work for us that he goes around looking for more work to do for people who will trust him.
When you love Christ, you don’t take much thought for your life in this world. Rather, you live for the glory of God’s grace.
What makes the whole Trinity rejoice together? The free, electing love of God to hide the true spiritual identity of Christ from the intellectual elite and to reveal it to babes.
Don’t replace Christ this summer with trifles. Seek the things that are above. Flight from Christ into Christless leisure makes the soul parched.
Consider these five digital dangers and some accompanying resolutions to avoid and redeem them.
God’s electing love is absolutely free. It is the gracious overflow of his boundless happiness guided by his infinite wisdom.
Trust God. Commit your way to him. Roll onto him your anxieties, frustrations, and plans — indeed, your very life.
Hope and love do not come from nowhere. They grow out of ideas — views of reality — revealed in the Scriptures.
How did you come to be a Christian? Join Charles Spurgeon and joyfully confess, “I ascribe my change wholly to God!”
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I love this man indeed. God bless this amazing work.
Everything I need daily to as a reminder that God is in control. Love John Pipers devotionals.
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Excellent thought. Removes all anxiety