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LONG FOR THE GIVER NOT HIS GIFTS

Posted on Friday, February 20, 2015 by Samuel

Wire Rim Glasses ca. 2002 David Powlison:

“We are meant to long supremely for the Lord himself, for the Giver, not his gifts. The absence of blessings – rejection, vanity, reviling, illness, poverty – often is the crucible in which we learn to love God for who he is. In our idolatry we make gifts out to be supreme goods, and make the Giver into the errand boy of our desires.” (Seeing with New Eyes, 134-135)