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You Can’t Escape God’s Gifts: A Letter to Aspiring Hedonists
Dear Michael,It’s so good to hear from you again. It stirs my heart to hear of your thrill in discovering Christian Hedonism. Yes, we glorify God when we enjoy him! Yes, our deepest desire and God’s highest aim are in harmony. Yes, we must (but as John Piper would say, not that kind of must) pursue our joy in him.I, too, experienced the freedom of these truths like the first sunrise over Eden. It is all too good not to be true.Yet you say a question has lately haunted you: “Do I enjoy God enough