Blessings, Mr. Piper

In an effort to appease the blogging gods and pass something meaningful on to you, I thought I’d send you over to Jamie’s site. He’s posted about a powerful message John Piper gave those in attendance at Passion 2007 in Atlanta last week. Jamie asks, “How many young (or old) people have been robbed of radical dreaming by the guilt that comes from sexual failure?” Here’s some bait from Piper’s message:

“The great tragedy is not mainly masturbation or fornication or acting like a peeping Tom (or curious Cathy) on the Internet. The tragedy is that Satan uses the guilt of these failures to strip you of every radical dream you ever had, or might have, and in its place give you a happy, safe, secure, American life of superficial pleasures until you die in your lakeside rocking chair, wrinkled and useless, leaving a big fat inheritance to your middle-aged children to confirm them in their worldliness. That’s the main tragedy.” Read more