# “Unalloyed and unending pleasure” by J.I. Packer

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- Published: 2026-04-25T10:30:00-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“Pleasure, unalloyed and unending, is God’s purpose for His people in every aspect
and activity of their fellowship with Him. ‘You will fill me with joy in your presence,
with eternal pleasures at your right hand’ (**Ps. 16:11**).

I hold the heady doctrine that no pleasures are so frequent or intense as those 
of the grateful, devoted, single-minded, whole-hearted, self-denying Christian.

I maintain that the delights of work and leisure, of friendship and family, of eating
and mating, of arts and crafts, of playing and watching games, of finding out and
making things, of helping other people, and all the other noble pleasures that life
affords, are doubled for the Christian.

For, as the cheerful old Puritans used to say (no, sir, that is not a misprint, 
nor a Freudian lapse; I mean Puritans — the real, historical Puritans, as distinct
from the smug sourpusses of last-century Anglo-American imagination), the Christian
tastes God in all his or her pleasures, and this increases them, whereas for other
people pleasure brings with it a sense of hollowness which reduces it.”

–J.I. Packer, [_**God Has Spoken: Revelation and the Bible**_](https://amzn.to/4sTsBaE)(
Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998), 14.

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