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This classic volume by John Piper (revised and expanded from his 1991 work) contains ten chapters, each focusing on a different but related aspect of God's pleasure in His own character or work. The chapters move logically from the initial focus on God's greatness and majesty in Himself to his grace and condescension toward us. Emphasizing the foundational truth that God is most glorified in us...

Fifth, God rejoices in the works of creation because they point us beyond themselves to God himself. God means for us to be stunned and awed by his work of creation. But not for its own sake. He means for us to look at his creation and say: If the mere work of his fingers (just his fingers! Psalm 8:3) is so full of wisdom and power and grandeur and majesty and beauty, what must this God be like in himself! These are but the backside of his glory, as it were, darkly seen through
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