Tia Joy Kim

One of the most helpful things I learned from John Piper while I was a college student was the idea of preaching to myself “a sermon about the character of God” (from his 1986 Mother’s Day sermon on 1 Peter 3:1-6). . Not as dramatically as back then, but I still feel the highs and lows of emotion and anxiety tied to circumstance or the changing states of my heart, and this practice has helped anchor me over the years. Because who He is doesn’t change depending on my spiritual state or my circumstances or others’ opinions. . In God we find truths that plunge deeper than the waves of pandemic and emotion and uncertainty. “I dare not trust the sweetest frame but wholly lean on Jesus’ name.” Thank God for this gift in a shifting world. 💛 . “So women who hope in God are women who look away from the troubles and miseries and obstacles of life that seem to make the future bleak, and they focus their attention on the sovereign power and love of God who rules in heaven and does on earth whatever he pleases … What is the one thing that a woman who hopes in God fears? She fears bringing dishonor on God. She fears that she may fail to glorify God under the rod of his hard providence. And how does she quiet her heart in the midst of that fear? She preaches herself a sermon about the character of God.” (John Piper)

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