(This post is sort of more of a side note of a particular section of Chapter One.)
Piper brings up the point that a lot of people feel they are merely being used by God since they were created for His glory. He goes on to describe the difference between what love truly means and what the world views love as. Regarding how the world views love, he says, “We are taught in a thousand ways that love means increasing someone’s self-esteem. Love is helping someone feel good about themselves.” (pg. 33) On the other hand, Piper tells his readers that the Bible does not view love in this same way; according to the Bible, “love is doing what is best for someone […and] making self the object of our highest affections is not best for us. It is, in fact, a lethal distraction. We were made to see and savor God.”
Therefore, since God’s love is perfect and would be shown to us best by giving us what He views as is best for us (seeing how He knows everything and knows what is best for us), logically “God loves us best by giving us the best to enjoy forever, namely Himself, for He is best.” (p. 35)
So in looking at the situation more closely, if God knows He is the best thing that He could give to a sinner and since He loves people perfectly, obviously He would give Himself to people so that they might in turn love Him and glorify Him. Therefore, in connecting to the quote in my previous post, “[God] is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.” When we are satisfied with “The Best,” God gets the most glory.
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