Don't Waste Your Life

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John Piper writes, "I will tell you what a tragedy is. I will show you how
to waste your life. Consider this story from the February 1998 Reader's
Digest: A couple 'took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast
five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta
Gorda, Florida, where they cruise on their 30-foot trawler, play softball
and collect shells. . . Picture them before Christ at the great day of
judgment: 'Look, Lord. See my shells.' That is a tragedy.
"God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his
supreme excellence in all the spheres of life. The wasted life is the life
without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan
and work not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every
part of our lives"
Most people slip by in life without a passion for God, spending their lives
on trivial diversions, living for comfort and pleasure, and perhaps trying
to avoid sin. This book will warn... Tovább

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John Piper writes, "I will tell you what a tragedy is. I will show you how
to waste your life. Consider this story from the February 1998 Reader's
Digest: A couple 'took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast
five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta
Gorda, Florida, where they cruise on their 30-foot trawler, play softball
and collect shells. . . Picture them before Christ at the great day of
judgment: 'Look, Lord. See my shells.' That is a tragedy.
"God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his
supreme excellence in all the spheres of life. The wasted life is the life
without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan
and work not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every
part of our lives"
Most people slip by in life without a passion for God, spending their lives
on trivial diversions, living for comfort and pleasure, and perhaps trying
to avoid sin. This book will warn you not to get caught up in a life that
counts for nothing. It will challenge you to live and die boasting in the
cross of Christ and making the glory of God your singular passion. If you
believe that to live is Christ and to die is gain, read this book, learn to
live for Christ, and don't waste your life!
Since 1980 John Piper has been the Pastor for Preaching at Bethlehem
Baptist Church in the heart of Minneapolis. He has inspired readers
toward a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all
peoples with his preaching and writing. John and his wife Noel have four
adult sons and a school-aged daughter. Vissza