I have loved reading John Piper and his exhortation to make Christ your Only boast in life. I have found great encouragement in my own life from Piper's words. I am finding the truth of Christ's sufficiency and safisfaction to be more evident in my life. I am striving to make Christ my only boast, my All-Satisfying Treasure in life. When I am delighting in Christ, everything else finds its proper place in life. Everything else- friends, family, school, hobbies, matieral possessions, money, and my talents are only tools to magnify Christ and show forth his greatness. However, all these things can be stripped from my life and thus I should not make my greatest delight in these arenas. If any of these parts of my life are taken away, I should still be able to say, "Christ is my All in All- I am satisfied in Christ." I should be able to say with Job, "Whom have I in heaven and on earth but you, and there is nothing that I desire besides you."
Oh, that Christ would increasingly become my only boast, my great delight in life!
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Yes, yes! Thank you for articulating what my heart sometimes aches to express, but lacks words. Detaching ourselves from the world to follow God is the hardest thing to do, but it is what He wants from us. I just read this morning in James that "if you have friendship with the world, you are an enemy of God." Do we stand out enough to make the world hate us? Didn't Jesus say that the world would hate us because we are so different from them and so much like him?
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