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Don't Waste Your Life
Don't Waste Your Life | John Piper
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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!
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“You Were made for God. Don‘t waste [your life]” (10).

Today I read the preface of Piper‘s Don‘t Waste Your Life. I am so excited to continue reading it and hopefully finish next week! I put down the Kelly Locke series for now because it is too realistic. Once I finish this novel and the other two in the queue for April then I may pick up the last 2.

Happy Reading!

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Day #4: #didntlikeitstillfinished #marchintoreading The book I absolutely hated but still finished isn't on Litsy and good thing - I would hate to think any Litten would waste their life on this. I did, because at the time I always finished the books I started. The awful book pictured is the one that made me realize bailing is not a bad thing; it's what I should have done with this one. The premise sounded good, but RUN, don't walk, away from it!

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very challenging on a number of levels