Benjamin’s Reviews > Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist > Status Update
Benjamin
is 72% done
- “There are three levels of how to live with things. You can steal to get. Or you can work to get. Or you work to get to in order to give. Too many professing Christians live on level two.”
- "For self-interest is not the same as selfishness. Selfishness seeks its own private happiness at the expense of others. Love seeks its happiness in the happiness of the beloved."
— Feb 10, 2026 06:22AM
- "For self-interest is not the same as selfishness. Selfishness seeks its own private happiness at the expense of others. Love seeks its happiness in the happiness of the beloved."
Like flag
Benjamin’s Previous Updates
Benjamin
is 95% done
Two quotes today:
"When we choose the fleeting pleasures of comfort and security over the sacrifices and sufferings of missions and evangelism and ministry and love, we choose against joy.”
"How many Christians do you know who could says, "The lifestyle I have chosen as a Christian would be utterly foolish and pitiable if there is no resurrection"?"
— Feb 11, 2026 06:41AM
"When we choose the fleeting pleasures of comfort and security over the sacrifices and sufferings of missions and evangelism and ministry and love, we choose against joy.”
"How many Christians do you know who could says, "The lifestyle I have chosen as a Christian would be utterly foolish and pitiable if there is no resurrection"?"
Benjamin
is 55% done
"God is not looking for people to work for him so much as he is looking for people who will let him work for them. The Gospel is not a "help wanted" ad.... He will not surrender his glory of being the giver."
— Feb 09, 2026 06:28AM
Benjamin
is 20% done
"No one is a Christian who does not embrace Jesus gladly as his most valued treasure and then pursue the fulness of that joy in Christ that honors him."
— Feb 01, 2026 06:41AM
Benjamin
is 5% done
"I find in the bible a divine command to be a pleasure seeker--that is, to forsake the two-bit, low-yield, short-term, never-satisfying, person-destroying, God-belittling pleasures of the world and instead to sell everything with joy (Matt. 13:44) in order to have the kingdom of heaven and thus "enter into the joy of your master" (25:21)."
— Jan 31, 2026 07:47AM
