Desiring God, by John Piper, is a life-altering book if you choose to read and follow the scriptural insight of how serving God accompanies the most absolute form of joy that one can experience in this human life. If you desire to have a closer relationship with God and a better understanding of how aspects of your life can better serve and represent God based on scripture, then this is most certainly the book for you! 


This book is not one that can be read while winding down before sleep because it does require active thinking to understand the vast depth of the information that Piper presents. However, I found that reading this book in the morning as a devotional was a wonderful way to begin my days and allowed me to grasp the concepts of how to live as a Christian Hedonist. Hedonism tends to have negative connotations in our world today, but Piper presents Christianity as needing to be lived with the reckless abandon of hedonists, instead of the watered-down "belief" of lack-luster Christianity. Far too often today are Christians passive in the way that we live our lives. The problem is that we are living "our lives," instead of living for Christ and helping those around us see the Christ within our hearts.


Throughout this book, Piper heavily relies on scripture in order to support his insights. I believe that this encourages the reader to search scripture for his or her own self in order to decide whether to believe Piper's teaching as being based on scripture or if he took verses and ideas out of context. I loved being able to delve into scripture myself in order to decide if I could come to the same conclusions as Piper, and in all cases I did agree that what he presented was deeply inspired by scripture. Specifically Piper addresses how a Christian Hedonist will live based on scripture on the topics of Conversion, Worship, Love, Scripture, Prayer, Money, Marriage, Missions, and Suffering.


If you allow it, Desiring God can assist you in your journey to developing the deepest relationship with God that you may have ever aspired to have.


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