Most people slip by in life without a passion for God, spending their lives on trivial diversions, living for comfort and pleasure, and perhaps trying to avoid sin. 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." The wasted life is the life without this passion. "God created us to live with a single passion to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life. Now they live in Punta Gorda, Florida, where they cruise on their 30-foot trawler, play softball and collect shells.' Picture them before Christ at the great day of judgment: 'Look, Lord. Consider this story from the February 1998 Reader's Digest: A couple 'took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. John Piper writes, "I will tell you what a tragedy is.
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