Seeing and Savoring

This summer I'm joining some of my best friends in both China and Canada as we read through a book by John Piper together. It's called "Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ". It's set up nicely in a way that takes you through the book in 40 days, and also gives you relevant scriptures focused on the chapter for each day. So far, so good, and my favorite part has been working through the prayers that Piper includes at the end of each chapter. Here's a taste.

A prayer offered in response to our knowledge of Jesus being the full glory of God:

Our hearts leap up with gratitude that you have opened our eyes to see and know that Jesus Christ is your eternal, divine Son, begotten, not made, and that Jesus Is the Glory of God you, O Father, and he, your Son, are one God. We tremble even to take such glorious truths on our lips for fear of dishonoring you with withering and inadequate words. But we must speak, because we must praise you. Silence would shame us, and the rocks themselves would cry out. You must be praised for who ayou are in the world you have made. And we must thank you because you have made us taste and see the glory of Jesus Christ, your Son. Oh, to know Him!

Father, we long to know him. Banish from our minds low thoughts of Christ. Saturate our souls with the Spirit of Christ and all his greatness. Enlarge our capacities to be satisfied in all that you are for us in him. Where flesh and blood are impotent, reveal to us the Christ, and rivet our attention and our affections on the truth and beauty of your all-glorious Son. And grant that whether rich or poor, sick or sound, we might be transformed by him and become an echo of his excellence in the world.

In Jesus name I pray- I long for you King Jesus- Amen.