The Bible Can Crush Wrong Dreams & Create Right Ones

We may lack hope because we think we need something we do not need. It may take the Word of God to show us what we really need, and then to give us the power to get it. In the end what we really need is Christ. He is the sum of all our hopes. Paul commends the Thessalonians for their “steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thess. 1:3). He says that our “blessed hope [is] the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ” (Tit. 2:13). Therefore we are to “hope in Christ” (Eph. 1:12) and rejoice in the mystery of the gospel, which is “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Col. 1:27).

Sometimes what we need from the Bible is not the fulfillment of our dream, but the swallowing up of our failed dream in the all-satisfying glory of Christ. We do not always know the path of deepest joy. But all Scripture is inspired by God to take us there. Therefore Scripture is worth more than all this world can offer.
-- John Piper... (later i'll post a pdf of excerpts from this chapter of his that i'm currently being very nourished & inspired by... see below)