Beholding the Happy God
Deep Dive into Beholding the Happy GodJohn Piper's book, The Pleasures of God, originated during a difficult period of pastoral exhaustion. Seeking solid spiritual nourishment, Piper turned to Henry Scougal's 1677 devotional work, The Life of God in the Soul of Man, which had previously awakened the eighteenth-century evangelist George Whitefield from his legalistic strivings. A specific sentence in Scougal's pastoral letter sparked a profound theological revelation: the worth and excellence of a human soul are measured by the object of its love. Piper reverently applied this principle…
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