desiring God

I've been reading an incredible book called Desiring God by John Piper. I'm still only about halfway through the book but I would highly recommend it to anyone. This book will definitely change the way you approach the Throne of Grace in worship. I won't go too deep into the meaning of the book. I just want to comment on one point in particular that has stuck in my head. Piper makes the claim that the greatest hindrance to our worship of the Father is not the fact that we are too focused on our own pleasure as many would say, but that the things that we allow to please us are so pitiful. The whole point of the book is that we should seek pleasure. But we should seek it in the ultimate source of pleasure, our Heavenly Father.

In the book Piper quotes often from C. S. Lewis and Jonathan Edwards. One quote from Lewis particularly stands out.

"Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."

I pray that all of us as Christians would be less easily pleased and would seek our pleasure in the worship of the only name that is worhty of worship. If you feel yourself struggling during worship, being distracted, thinking of all the other things you could be doing, I encourage you to pick up a copy of this book and give it a read.