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Solid Joys Daily Devotional
Summary: 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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God could have seen to it that Jesus have a room at his birth. But that would have been a detour off the Calvary road.
Do not think, because you experience adversity, that the hand of the Lord is shortened.
For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.
The only people whose soul can truly magnify the Lord are people like Elizabeth and Mary. So, this Advent, imitate their lowliness and cheerful humility.
This Advent, bend the efforts of your imagination to make the wonder of Jesus’s arrival visible for your children.
No matter how dirty with sin you are, through Christ you can see the light of God’s glory and believe.
Our greatest problem is alienation from God. The only solution is the blood of Christ.
At the root of all ingratitude is the love of one’s own greatness. But genuine gratitude glorifies God because it admits that we need him.
The whole duty of the Christian can be summed up in this: feel, think, and act in a way that will make God look as great as he really is.
Our salvation is as secure as Christ’s priesthood is indestructible. His deity and resurrection from the dead secure his indestructible priesthood for us.
A life that gives glory to God for his grace and a life of deepest gladness are the same life. And what makes them one is thankfulness.
When Christ died for us, he did not buy the freedom from having to hold fast, but the enabling power to hold fast.
It is as unlikely that God will break his word of promise to bless us as it is that he will despise himself.
Getting ready to feast on all God’s word is not first an intellectual challenge; it is first a moral challenge.
A thankful spirit is others-exalting and glad-hearted. Therefore, pray for a great awakening of humble gratitude.