I highly recommend this book: Don't Waste Your Life, by John Piper. It is very convicting but also encouraging. It challenges us to consider how we spend our lives and what we are willing to die for. Will we buy into the American dream of confort and complacency? It challenges us to find our ultimate comfort in Christ even though the way may be paved in trouble. Choosing Christ is to choose a full life, anything other than Christ is a waste. Quotation from the book:
"Forbid that any, Lord, who reads these words would have to say some day: "I’ve wasted [my life]." But grant, by your almighty Spirit and your piercing Word, that we who name Christ as the Lord would treasure him above our lives, and feel, deep in our souls, that Christ is life and death is gain. And so may we display his worth for all to see. And by our prizing him may he be praised in all the world. May he be magnified in life and death. May every neighborhood and nation see how joy in Jesus frees his people from the power of greed and fear." (p. 189)
It is also a good introduction to reading Piper as some find Desiring God too heavy.
As of today, Piper's book, The Passion of Jesus Christ, (released in January) has sold more than 1,055,378 copies.
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