The Lawful Pleasure of Praise From Those Who It Was My Duty to Please

The problem is not that our desires a need to stay constantly small and in check, to make sure they don't threaten our sort of feeble love for christ. The more we love jesus, the more we will actually desire these good things. We easily deceive ourselves saying, well, ok, if the desire can be good, then i'm probably just wanting something good here, and i don't have to worry about it either. There's lutely a danger of letting go, of carefulness, of not guarding our hearts against the self-deceitful pride"