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When the Darkness Will Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God—And Joy is unavailable, but you can change that!

Even the most faithful, focused Christians can encounter periods of depression and spiritual darkness when joy seems to stay just out of reach. It can happen because of sin, satanic assault, distressing circumstances, or hereditary and other physical causes. In When the Darkness Will Not Lift, John Piper aims to give some comfort and guidance to those experiencing spiritual darkness.

of God, my guilt for sin is removed by Christ’s blood (“In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses” [Eph. 1:7]); and my title to heaven is provided by Christ’s obedience (“By the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous” [Rom. 5:19]). I am declared just—freed from the punishment of sin and now possessing a title to heaven. This is what the Bible means by justification. The capstone of its joy-producing glory is that justification is by faith alone apart
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