Pleasures Evermore

This book has helped me realize that pleasure is key to vibrant faith. Pleasure in God, that is. Sam is a strong advocate of John Piper, whose "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him," and his rephrasing of the Westminster Shorter Catechism "The chief end of man is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever are at the essence of what he calls "Christian hedonism," from his book Desiring God. Piper and Storms are both advocates of Jonathan Edwards, who they say was himself a Christian hedonist. I can't stress strongly enough that I don't believe that God wants pleasure to be our god, but He wants us to delight in Him. Of course I need to always obey God even when the pleasure isn't initially there, but ultimately I should long to enjoy God and His will rather than simply obeying out of duty.

I can see how quickly this could turn into a doctrinal debate, and I don't have the theological background to argue the fine points. I would appreciate your thoughts on pleasure as it relates to the Christian life.