So easily distracted

Posted on March 13, 2010
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We are all swayed, wooed, influenced, carried away, prevailed upon quite easily.

How do we know this? How easily are we distracted from the important (quality reading) and settle for the unimportant (TV)? How easily do we forsake wisdom (eat less) and happily succumb to folly (eating too much)?

Jesus said to love God with all our heart. And by that, John Piper thinks He meant, “Loving God is most essentially treasuring God. … If one of our human capacities finds pleasure in anyone or anything in such a way that this pleasure is not also a delight in God, then we have not loved God with all that capacity.”

To guard our hearts (Proverbs 4:23) is to guard our love for God. To guard our love for God is to be truly in love with Him.

Photo credit The quote comes from John Piper’s book, What Jesus Demands from the world, page 81