Not Only Golf, but God

I'm going to change things up a little. Like the title of this post implies, I'm not all about golf, but rather heavily in love with the God of the Bible. My love for golf is not an end in itself; it bleeds out of the joy I seek in Jesus Christ and through that love for golf do I experience joy in God. I was reading "When I Don't Desire God" by John Piper recently and I got to a chapter titled "How To Wield the World in the Fight for Joy", in which Piper talks about the inseparable nature of our physical experience and our spiritual experience. He says on p. 182,

". . . [C.S.] Lewis also reminds us that spiritual emotions, like joy in God, are only experienced in connection with physical sensations. They are not identical, but they are almost always inseparable. In this earthly life, we are never disembodied souls with only spiritual emotions. We are complex spiritual-physical beings who experience joy in Christ as something more, but almost never less, than physical sensation."

So you can pick up on the inseparable nature of our physical and spiritual experiences.

All this is to to let you know that just because I am absolutely in love with the game of golf, everything I feel, hear, say, and do on (and off) the course is filtered through my love for God.