“You took their place”

“How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose! …You drove them from me, You who are the true, the sovereign joy. You drove them from me and took their place… O Lord my God, my Light, my Wealth, and my Salvation.” -Augustine (quoted in John Piper’s Taste and See)

HT: Anna from Hope Road