Solid Joys Daily Devotional Devastated and Delighted
Sep 2, 2025
Explore the fascinating interplay between devastation and delight through the lens of grace. Delve into Calvinistic doctrines that reveal how concepts like total depravity and unconditional election enrich the believer's joy. Discover how acknowledging our struggles can lead to profound celebrations of God's unwavering love.
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Doctrines Reframe Devastation Into Delight
- The five points of Calvinism can be read through the lens of Christian hedonism to show how they relate to joy in God.
- Each doctrine reframes a harsh truth as a pathway to deeper delight in Christ.
Sin As Blindness To Joy
- Total depravity means blindness to God's beauty and deadness to deepest joy, not mere moral badness.
- Irresistible grace and perseverance are framed as God's power to replace inferior pleasures with superior delights.
Election Anchors Joy In God's Delight
- Unconditional election roots our joy as planned before we existed and as an overflow of God's own joy.
- Limited atonement, irresistible grace, and perseverance secure and sustain that indestructible joy in God's people.
