Priceless

This is living testament to the fact that prayers are answered. I just got back from Seattle this afternoon with teeth missing. They were dead anyway and I don't think that they'll be missed.

Piper says that "God is most glorified as we're most satisfied in Him." I've never heard this before, but I'd like to make it paramount in my life. He goes on to say how faith and evangelism should all be based around the fact that our greatest treasure in the whole universe should be Christ and Him alone. When we truly begin to treasure Him, as He should be, He receives glory and we receive peace. To put Piper in redneck terms, this is a deal that you can't beat with a stick!

If we don't treasure Him, we'll definitely find something to. When sex, booze, our kids, playstation 2, our house, cars, religion, right living/thinking or whatever becomes our treasure it's nothing short of idolatry. For those not familiar...idolatry = bad. Mucho bad. If you really think about and consider it for a while, why in the hell would you ever treasure anything more than the most valuable commodity in the whole universe??? Could it be for some fleeting pleasures behind closed doors? Would we gladly relinquish an eternal gift for something temporal, like anything in this earth, so much so that's it's considered a vapor?

He's glorified not only by being seen, but by our rejoicing in Him. So, rejoice folks and let Him be glorified. Engage culture and love your brother with reckless abandon. Hold tight to Truth and drink this abundant life to the full, for in that He is glorified. Jump from the Ivory Towers filled with deadmen's bones and be immersed in the moat of His majesty. Loose your grip from your own petty depression that you claim ownership over and allow this glorious gospel loose through your laughter that lashes out at the mundane and dreadful.

This treasure is surely without measure...