wots #291008

"You may not be sure that you want your life to make a difference. Maybe you
don't care very much whether you make a lasting difference for the sake of
something great. You just want people to like you. If people would just like
being around you, you'd be satisfied. Or if you could just have a good job with
a good wife, or husband, and a couple of good kids and a nice car and long
weekends and a few good friends, a fun retirement, and a quick and easy death,
and no hell - if you could have all that (even without God) - you would be
satisfied. That is a tragedy in the making. A wasted life."

john piper - don't waste your life, pg. 45

ps. simply profound.