Zeke Shatzer’s Reviews > God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards > Status Update

“When God is so often spoken of as the Last as well as the First, the End as well as the Beginning, it is implied that as He is the first, efficient Cause and Fountain from whence all things originate; so, He is the last, final Cause for which they are made; the final Term to which they all tend in their ultimate issue.” -Pg 184

I rly haven’t learned anything new lol. John Piper has already explained all of this in wayyyyyyy easier to understand language.

I skimmed lol. I’ve learned all this stuff from John Piper ngl

I decided to fight through it slowly but surely. Wish me luck 🫡

Read the intro to the Jonathan Edwards part of the book (lol thats a lie I skipped it and then read one page) and it’s boring and hard to understand so I’m good ima procrastinate this one/not read it until I’m smarter/older/more boring so I care 😝

“Mere self-love savors the gifts of God without savoring fellowship with God Himself.” -Pg 110

“…self-love is confined and narrow and selfish—and not virtuous—until it embraces or delights in the good of the whole universe or being, or more simply, until it embraces God.” -Pg 108

“…if what makes a person happy is the extension of his joy in God into the lives of others, then it is not wrong to seek that happiness, because it magnifies God and blesses people.” -Pg 91

“So saving grace…is God’s giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will.” -Pg 87

“Pursuing delight in God is not something one may do halfheartedly, if he realizes who he is pursuing and what is at stake.” -Pg 81