Strategies for Cultivating Self-Forgetfulness (#2)

(This is the third in a series of posts on self-forgetfulness.)

Here is Piper's second strategy to cultivate self-forgetfulness:

"Familiarize yourself with greatness. Getting to know something great that draws you outside of yourself. Could be nature - clouds, Grand Canyon. Could be God and the Bible. This is why study is so valuable. I have often asked depressed people, “Have you ever read a book on systematic theology? That might be good therapy.” That might be really weird, but the whole point is to be drawn out of yourself into something really great out there. So familiarize yourself with greatness."

I think this strategy is so important because if I'm not familiar with true greatness, I begin to assign greatness to things that aren't really that great (namely myself). I recommend surveying the cross of Christ as the pinnacle of greatness... it is sure to draw you outside of yourself into something really great.