“God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in Him” – John Piper
It is important to take this statement in its totality. I’ve somehow always missed the words “in me”. This statement of God’s glory is in relation to us in how we magnify him in our lives.
To omit “in me” makes the statement fuzzy and that may lead to assumptions. God is glorious whether or not we are satisfied in Him. However, for God to be glorified in our lives, we have to be satisfied in Him.
Why? Because the bible commands us not to have other gods before us. To state it negatively we can say, “God is not glorified in me when I am not satisfied in Him”.
If God is not my all sufficiency, the source of my joy and affections, then I presumably have another source of happiness. Someone or something else has taken the rightful place of God.
Therefore to be not satisfied in God is to break the first commandment stated in Exodus 20:3.
I phrased these thoughts this way because I have had a nagging question in me. I was concerned if Piper’s statement was anything short of the ultimate purpose of man. I wanted to know whether this statement was true, and biblical. I can’t phrase it properly.
