Don't Waste Your Life by John Piper (excerpt)

What you love determines what you feel shame about.
If love for men to make much of you,
you will feel shame when they don't.
If you love for men to make much of Christ,
then you will feel shame when He is belittled on your account.

Whenever something is of tremendous value to you,
and you cherish its beauty or power or uniqueness,
you want to draw others' attention to it
and awaken in them the same joy.

That is what it means to magnify Christ -
to show the magnitude of His value

Don't Waste Your Life (excerpt)

"[C.S. Lewis] showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages. To this day I get most of my soul-food from centuries ago. I thank God for Lewis' compelling demonstration of the obvious.

He demonstrated for me and convinced me that rigorous, precise, penetrating logic is not opposed to deep, soul-stirring feeling and vivid, lively - even playful - imagination."

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I've taken a break from the Buddhist book for now. Though it has some cool stuff I've been using in my prayer life, there is a lot of strange stuff that can be tiring to wade through.

Now I'm reading Don't Waste Your Life by John Piper. It's about how a Christian should live life to the fullest sharing God's love and glory. I've felt kind of stale lately so this has been a good jolt in the right direction for me. Piper continually makes the point that we were created to bring glory to God and that as a Christian, I should be mindful of that in everything I do - work, school, spending, speaking, everything. His words aren't radically new to me, but they have been a great reminder to me of the life I want to lead. I want to bring glory to God by the way I cat in the dorm so that the guys around me "may, because of my deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation." (I Peter 2:12)