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This glory of God, therefore, in the creature’s admiring and rejoicing exulting in the manifestation of his beauty and excellency. Nor doth the glory of God consist especially in speaking of his perfections: for words avail not any otherwise than as they express the sentiment of the mind. Those creatures that so do, don’t glorify God. glory of God consist merely in the creature’s perceiving his perfections: for the creature may perceive the power and wisdom of God, and yet take no delight in it, but abhor it. He preached a sermon when he was still in his early twenties with this main point: “The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.” His text was 1 John 3:2, “And it doth not yet appear what we shall be” (KJV). Seeking happiness in God and glorifying God were the same. Therefore to resolve to maximize his happiness in God was to resolve to show him more glorious than all other sources of happiness. Delighting in God was not a mere preference or option in life it was our joyful duty and should be the single passion of our lives. And with regard to seeking his own happiness, keep in mind that Edwards was absolutely convinced that being happy in God was the way we glorify him. The violence he had in mind was what Jesus meant when he said in essence, “Better to gouge out your eye to kill lust and go to heaven than to make peace with sin and go to hell” (Matt. This last resolution (#22) may strike us as blatantly self-centered, even dangerous, if we do not understand the deep connection in Edwards’s mind between the glory of God and the happiness of Christians. In this redesigned best-selling book, John Piper makes a passionate plea to the next generation to not waste their lives, but to live wholeheartedly for Christ.

Resolution #22: “Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness, in the other world, as I possibly can, with all the power, might, vigor, and vehemence, yea violence, I am capable of, or can bring myself to exert, in any way that can be thought of.” 1.

Resolution #17: “Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.”.

Resolution #6: “Resolved, to live with all my might, while I do live.”.

Resolution #5: “Resolved, never to lose one moment of time but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.”.

Consider some of the resolutions he wrote in his early twenties to intensify his life for the glory of God. His life is inspiring because of his zeal not to waste it and because of his passion for the supremacy of God. It ended abruptly from a failed smallpox vaccination when he was fifty-four. I thank God that Edwards did not waste his life. No one outside Scripture has shaped my vision of God and the Christian life more than Jonathan Edwards. For me he has become the most important dead teacher outside the Bible. He was a pastor and theologian in New England. It was powerful because he showed that it was in the Bible. Jonathan Edwards came into my life with the most powerful confirmation of this truth I have ever seen outside the Bible. Enjoying God makes him look supremely valuable.

Enjoying God supremely is one way to glorify him.

They relate to each other not like fruit and animals, but like fruit and apples. God being glorified and God being enjoyed are not separate categories. How an Eighteenth-Century Preacher Sealed My Breakthrough