echoes of His excellence

-"It was good of you to look for Quentin."
-"Good!" she exclaimed. "Good! O Anthony!"
-"Well, so it was," he answered. "Or good in you. How accurate one has to be with one's prepositions! Perhaps it was a preposition wrong that set the whole world awry."
Charles Williams

I've been reading John Piper's Desiring God, and his insight just blows my mind. The whole book describes what he calls "Christian Hedonism" (in a sentence: The chief end of man is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever.)
He frequently quotes C.S. Lewis and this particular quote impacted me. It is from Reflections on the Psalms: "I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation."
i love this concept. That God created us in such a way that we HAVE to declare His glory to the world. Because in our praise, our joy is complete in Him.

"God is the one Being in all the universe for whom seeking his own praise is the ultimately loving act. For him, self-exultation is the highest virtue. When he does all things 'for the praises of his glory,' he preserves for us and offers to us the only thing in all the world which can satisfy our longing. God is for us! And the foundation of this love is that God has been, is now, and always will be, for himself."
John Piper

"The climax of his happiness is the delight he takes in the echoes of his excellence in the praises of the saints. This praise is the consummation of our own joy in God. Therefore God's pursuit of praise from us and our pursuit of pleasure in him are the same pursuit."
John Piper