Sleep is a parable that God is God and we are mere men. God handles the world quite nicely while a hemisphere sleeps. Sleep is like a broken record that comes around with the same message every day: Man is not sovereign. Man is not sovereign. Man is not sovereign. Don’t let the lesson be lost on you. God wants to be trusted as the great worker who never tires and never sleeps. He is not nearly so impressed with our late nights and early mornings as He is with the peaceful trust that casts all anxieties on Him and sleeps.

John Piper (b. 1946), Pastor, Theologe und Bestsellerautor

Topics: Faith & Trust, Peace & Rest

Occasions: Morning & Evening, For Reflection

John Piper

John Piper (* 1946) ist ein US-amerikanischer reformierter Theologe, Autor und langjähriger Pastor der Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis sowie Gründer der Lehrorganisation Desiring God. Er prägte das Konzept des „christlichen Hedonismus“, das Freude an Gott als Kern christlicher Frömmigkeit begreift, und gilt als einflussreiche Stimme der neo-calvinistischen Bewegung. Für Bibelleser vermittelt er ein theozentrisches Schriftverständnis mit starker Betonung der Souveränität Gottes, steht jedoch wegen seiner strikt komplementaristischen Haltung zu Geschlechterrollen und seiner Äußerungen zu Unterordnung in der Kritik.

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