"The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night. For all the ill that Satan can do, when God describes what keeps us from the banquet table of his love, it is a piece of land, a yoke of oxen, and a wife (Luke 14:18-20). ….the most deadly appetites are not for the poison of evil, but for the simple pleasures of earth.”
John Piper
Sunday, November 22, 2009
A Thought to Ponder
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Oh, that we would eat up such fithly garbage and too often forgo the finest and purest of foods.
ReplyDeleteGlad we don't watch too much TV then! There is enough out there competing for our affections, to which only the Lord deserves our all!