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Pierced by the Word: 31 Meditations for Your Soul is unavailable, but you can change that!

Thirty-one subjects are addressed in this book, as unique as “How to Be a Refuge for Your Children,” “How to Drink Orange Juice to the Glory of God,” and “Embracing the Pain of Shame.” Some are longer, some shorter, like the real-world conversations they so closely resemble, and each comes from the fertile mind of John Piper and is written in his own inimitable style. Together, the readings will...

2. Humility does not feel it has a right to better treatment than Jesus got. “If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household” (Matthew 10:25). Therefore humility does not return evil for evil. It is not a life based on its perceived rights. “Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.… When he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting to him who judges justly” (1 Peter 2:21–23).
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