As a result of reading Galatians and the first three chapters of John Owen’s Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers, I have written some things that came to mind. Actually as I reread what I wrote, I remember pieces of Philippians and much of John Piper’s writing. Keep in mind this has not yet been particularly well thought out.
We can rejoice in God’s fulfillment of our comforts and respond with gratitude, and we can rejoice amid sorrow because it is allowed by God and can be used to glorify him. No circumstance can keep us from seeking him and enjoying him. We are not commanded to be happy but to rejoice – to praise him, and we have plenty of reason to do that. With God as our greatest desires, other desires when left unfulfilled, do (should not) not consume us or even hinder our complete passion for God. God gives us the desires of our hearts, but he does not always fulfill the desires of our bodies for the sake of our hearts. I am not talking about desires of our sinful nature (“the flesh”) but simply our desires for comfort. Even our amoral desires may have to be tempered at times to allow complete focus on our new heart’s desire to glorify God and enjoy him.
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