How do you get a desire that you don’t have and you can’t create?

New year means a fresh start and why not make the most of this free audio book of John Piper’s When I don’t desire God, normally £8.99, to get you spiritually prepared for 2012.

Piper writes:

The most common and desperate question I have receivedover the last three decades is: What can I do? How can I become the kindof person the Bible is calling me to be?

In effect Christians say to Piper:

I want this [life].But I fear I don’t have it. In fact, as far as I can see, it is outside my power to obtain. How do you get a desire that you don’t have and you can’t create? Or how do you turn the spark into a flame so that you can besure it is pure fire?

When I don’t desire God is John Piper’s response.

You must download the book by 31st Decemeber to get if for free. You can also access and print out a free pdf version of the book at the Desiring God website.