This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.
John PiperFaith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.
John PiperFight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.
John Piper