Are you wasting your life?
March 28, 2007
I’m a huge John Piper fan. I recently read his book Don’t Waste Your Life (scroll down to find the link; you can download a free copy). It’s a bit slow at the beginning, but it picks up fast and is so worth the read. He’s got some great quotes in there. This one whooped my booty:
Oh, how many lives are wasted by people who believe that the Christian life means simply avoiding badness and providing for the family. So there is no adultery, no stealing, no killing, no embezzlement, no fraud—just lots of hard work during the day, and lots of TV and PG-13 videos in the evening (during quality family time), and lots of fun stuff on the weekend—woven around church (mostly). This is life for millions of people. Wasted life. We were created for more, far more.
There is an old saying: “No man ever lamented on his dying bed, ‘I wish I had spent more time at the office.”
But that saying about spending less time at the office can be misleading. We need to add this: No one will ever want to say to the Lord of the universe five minutes after death, I spent every night playing games and watching clean TV with my family because I loved them so much. I think the Lord will say, “That did not make me look like a treasure in your town. You should have done something besides provide for yourself and your family. And TV, as you should have known, was not a good way to nurture your family or your own soul.”
I get so stuck in small thinking, content to do my own thing and hardly looking beyond the end of my own nose or outside the boundaries of my own comfy, suburban yard (or complaining endlessly on my blog). There is so much more to life. Now I just gotta figure out which useful, God thing(s) to pursue.
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Hi, I'm Amy. I teach people how to blog, I collect, organize & share free homeschooling resources, I am was the pastor's wife, I'm co-raising 4 kiddos, and I have issues. Read more about me here or find out how to contact me here.
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March 29th, 2007 @ 12:30 am
Great thoughts from Piper! It’s so true!
I just wanted to tell you that you’ve done a really great thing by connecting us PW’s on the forum. You set a precedent of getting real and opening up and it is such a huge blessing and we are really reaching into each other’s lives in meaningful ways! Thank you!
I also really believe it is every mother’s ‘big thing’ in life to raise their children to know, love and follow the Lord. I am just beginning to see the outcome of it with one in college now and 2 teens….it is a BIG thing to let go of their hand and see them still walking with the Lord. =)
March 29th, 2007 @ 2:28 am
Amen. Life is about so much beside “my four and no more”. I pray that all of us will discover our God-given destinies in Christ Jesus. These destinies are so much higher than we can possibly imagine.
March 29th, 2007 @ 6:59 am
But you are pursueing God things by training up your children, living a Christian life, setting an example for others, and blogging! Just be ready to use any opportunity to witness that is placed in your path.