But in order to receive god by faith the mind must come to know god through the gospel and value him a kind of thinking as the souls and minds greatest treasure chapter 6 treasuring god with all your mind does just what you think it will do chapters 7 and 8 both deal with facing the challenge of relativism. Glorifying god with our minds and hearts however is not either or but both and focusing on the life of the mind will enable you to know god better love him more and care for the world this book will help you think about thinking and about how the heart and mind glorify god together. John pipers new book think the life of the mind and the love of god seeks to destroy the underlying assumptions and problems behind both of these errors piper begins the introduction with these words this book is a plea to embrace serious thinking as a means of loving god and people. So to love god with all your mind means engaging all your powers of thought to know god as fully as possible in order to treasure him for all he is worth where should we focus the light of gods glory at the cross is so strong that it makes all self exalting thinking look foolish