Something to Boast About
Faith nullifies boasting and glorifies grace. Wherever faith looks, it sees grace behind every praiseworthy act. So it cannot boast, except in the Lord.
May 30, 2025•3 min
Solid Joys Daily Devotional
Solid Joys is a daily devotional written and read by John Piper. These short and substantive readings will feed your joy in Jesus every day of the year. Discover more from Piper at desiringGod.org.
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When God Goes Against His Will
God has wise and holy purposes when he does not answer our prayers as we want. Trust him. He knows what he is doing.
May 29, 2025•4 min
The Payout for Patience
The sovereign grace of God can turn the unplanned place and the unplanned pace into the happiest ending imaginable.
May 28, 2025•4 min
Authentic vs. Phony Faith
We can know that our sins are taken away and that we will be safe in the judgment, if we trust Christ in such a way that it makes us eager for his coming.
May 27, 2025•3 min
Strength to Wait with Patience
Patience is indeed a fruit of the Holy Spirit, but the Spirit empowers us (with all his fruit) through hearing with faith.
May 26, 2025•3 min
God’s Design in Detours
What feels to us like a waste is what God plans. He works through the most hopeless circumstances.
May 25, 2025•4 min
The Bedrock of Your Assurance
Our election is unconditional in the strictest sense. Neither our faith nor our obedience is the basis of it. It is free and utterly undeserved.
May 24, 2025•4 min
Is Christ Worth It?
When we sit down to calculate the cost of following Jesus — when we weigh the “worst” and the “best” — he is worth it. Abundantly worth it.
May 23, 2025•4 min
Jesus Knows His Sheep
Jesus knows all his sheep by name; that is, he knows them individually and intimately.
May 22, 2025•3 min
God Works for You
God is so eager to work for us that he goes around looking for more work to do for people who will trust him.
May 21, 2025•4 min
How to Hate Your Life
When you love Christ, you don’t take much thought for your life in this world. Rather, you live for the glory of God’s grace.
May 20, 2025•4 min
What Makes Jesus Rejoice
What makes the whole Trinity rejoice together? The free, electing love of God to hide the true spiritual identity of Christ from the intellectual elite and to reveal it to babes.
May 19, 2025•4 min
The Light Beyond the Light
Don’t replace Christ this summer with trifles. Seek the things that are above. Flight from Christ into Christless leisure makes the soul parched.
May 18, 2025•4 min
Five Digital Dangers
Consider these five digital dangers and some accompanying resolutions to avoid and redeem them.
May 17, 2025•5 min
The Freest Love
God’s electing love is absolutely free. It is the gracious overflow of his boundless happiness guided by his infinite wisdom.
May 16, 2025•4 min
What Is Meekness?
Trust God. Commit your way to him. Roll onto him your anxieties, frustrations, and plans — indeed, your very life.
May 15, 2025•3 min
Ideas Have Consequences
Hope and love do not come from nowhere. They grow out of ideas — views of reality — revealed in the Scriptures.
May 14, 2025•4 min
At the Bottom of It All
How did you come to be a Christian? Join Charles Spurgeon and joyfully confess, “I ascribe my change wholly to God!”
May 13, 2025•4 min
Why We Should Love Our Enemies
When God becomes our treasure, we treat our adversaries out of our own fullness with the all-satisfying glory of God.
May 12, 2025•4 min
Go on to the Meal
You have heard echoes of God’s glory everywhere; tune your heart to the original music. The best place to get your heart tuned is at the cross of Jesus Christ.
May 11, 2025•3 min
A People for His Name
God is pursuing with omnipotent delight a worldwide purpose of gathering a people for his name from every tribe and language and nation.
May 10, 2025•4 min
What It Means to Love God
This is the essence of what it means to love God: to be satisfied in him — not just his gifts, but God himself, as the glorious person that he is.
May 09, 2025•3 min
Pleased with His Precepts
Faith overcomes our inborn hostility to God and his will, and frees us to keep his commandments.
May 08, 2025•3 min
Don’t Serve God
God will gladly receive anything from us that shows our dependence and his all-sufficiency. Therefore, we can gladly cast all our anxieties on him.
May 07, 2025•4 min
Truer Knowledge Brings Greater Joy
The only joy that reflects the worth of God and overflows in God-glorifying love is rooted in true knowledge of God.
May 06, 2025•3 min
Seven Sources of Joy
Joy comes from the Holy Spirit, not our own efforts or imagination or family upbringing. Therefore, the call to joy is a call to earnest prayer.
May 05, 2025•3 min
A Dangerous Motive
Gratitude looks back to past grace received and feels thankful. Faith looks forward to future grace promised and feels hopeful.
May 04, 2025•4 min
How to Ask Forgiveness
Praying for forgiveness should be based not only on an appeal to God’s mercy, but also on an appeal to his justice in crediting the worth of his Son’s obedience.
May 03, 2025•3 min
God Demonstrates His Love
The goal of everything God takes us through is hope. He wants us to feel unwaveringly hopeful through all tribulations. He wants us to know he loves us.
May 02, 2025•4 min
Dirty Rags No More
God requires good works not as the ground of our justification (which is the righteousness of Christ alone), but as an evidence of it.
May 01, 2025•4 min
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