Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Ta Dah!

"If Christ is an all-satisfying treasure and promises to provide all our needs, even through famine and nakedness, then to live as though we had all the same values as the world would betray him - I have in mind mainly how we use our money and how we feel about our possessions. I hear the haunting words of Jesus, 'Do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the Gentiles seek after all these things" (Matthew 6:31-32). In other words, if we look like our lives are devoted to getting and maintaining things, we will look like the world, and that will not make Christ look great. He will look like a religious side-interest that may be useful for escaping hell in the end, but doesn't make much differece in what we live and love here. He will not look like an all-satisfying treasure. And that wil not make others glad in God."

- John Piper
Don't Waste Your Life, p. 107-08

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