존 파이퍼, 5 points 원서강독 8-9 "내 경험으로 보건대 성경을 통해 하나님을 명확히 알면, 그것이 불쏘시개가 되어 하나님을 향한 애정의 불을 활활 타오르게.

존 파이퍼, 5 points 원서강독 8-9 "내 경험으로 보건대 성경을 통해 하나님을 명확히 알면, 그것이 불쏘시개가 되어 하나님을 향한 애정의 불을 활활 타오르게 해 준다 "

That’s the way Jesus prays for us to his Father: “That the love with which you have loved me may be in them” (John 17:26). That is what we long for: the very love the Father has for the Son filling us, enabling us to love the Son with the magnitude and purity of the love of the Father. Then the frustrations of inadequate love will be over. Yes, the more you know him and love him and trust him, the more you long to know him. That’s why I have written this little book. I long to know God and enjoy God. And I want the same for you. The great old catechism asks, “What is the chief end of man?” and answers, “Man’s chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever.”2 Enjoying God is the way to glorify God, because God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him. But to enjoy him we must know him. Seeing is savoring. If he remains a blurry, vague fog, we may be intrigued for a season. But we will not be stunned with joy, as when the fog clears and you find yourself on the brink of some vast precipice. Worthwhile Wrestling My experience is that clear knowledge of God from the Bible is the kindling that sustains the fires of affection for God. And probably the most crucial kind of knowledge is the knowledge of what God is like in salvation. That is what the five points of Calvinism are about. Not the power and sovereignty of God in general, but his power and sovereignty in the way he saves people. That is why these points are sometimes called the doctrines of grace. To experience God fully, we need to know not just how he acts in general, but specifically how he saves us—how did he save me? 

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