This past week I started to read a popular book and a very much recommended reading by John Piper, Don’t Waste Your Life.
I have read the first two chapters and now need to pause, reflect, and mediate over the words of Piper. Here is a brief quote from Chapter 2:
God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all 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. Piper (Chapter 2)
One of the driving and repeated phrases Piper uses is: to bring honor, glory, value, and magnify the name of Jesus Christ. Piper recalls Paul’s ministry to the church:
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 1 Cor 10:31 ESV
While searching for information on John Piper, I found this full length free 
sermon titled, Don’t Waste Your Life. John is a very passionate man and has an urgency to live a life not wasted, spun out of control, or spinning down the toilet. Rather, choose a life that is not wasted. What is a life not wasted? A life that displays the supreme value of Jesus Christ. John draws our attention to the works of Paul again in Philippians.
What does life mean to Paul?
Whether I live or die, I always want to be as brave as I am now and bring honor to Christ. If I live, it will be for Christ, and if I die, I will gain even more. v 20-21 CEV
Above all else, you must live in a way that brings honor to the good news about Christ. v 27 CEV
I look forward to spending the next few weeks and months, reading this book which challenges me to live a life not wasted but live a life to the glory of God in whatever I do.
Resources:
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