Don’t Waste Your Life, John Piper (Video)
When Jesus taught us to pray that His Kingdom would come and His Fathers will be done in earth as it is in heaven, Jesus was not making a pious, pseudo religious statement. He was actually dramatically flipping common prayer on its head. This is an upside down, backwards from human, mentality. It is far more natural for me to pray that God would submit to the wants and needs of my kingdoms. One of the only hopes I have of being an overcomer in deed is to have this pilgrim mindset. All my efforts need to be the result of a heart that cries, weeps, pleads, and yearns for the coming of the Kingdom of Christ and this is not a yearning for my benefit by the way, the yearning is for His sake, rather than mine. I want this kingdom in two ways…I want the kingdom to come into the hearts of the dead, that they may be raised into the life which is Christ, and I want the physical reign of my Lord more than any other thing. I am posting this video because, once again, Pastor Piper says so well what ought to be said to those of us who have maintained that materialism is somehow Christian. We do this through very many incorrect associations. Associations which I hope to write about some day.
Grant us Lord, as your children the desire to pray this along with the saints of old, and may our praying for it change our hearts that we may live like we believe it, not wasting our lives on those things which perish…but hastening the day of your return, but living as if eternity were NOW!
Watched the video then went to one of his sites…it is kinda funny that at http://www.desiringgod.org/ (God-centered resources from the ministry of John Piper) right on the home page is this “Christmas Special
12 Gift Sets on Sale…
Something for Everyone ”
Hmmmm…
His website gives away more free material than probably any other ministry that I know of on the internet. If you go to the resource page you can download for free almost any of his books, or listen to anything they do. The stuff they are selling for Christmas is being sold at a price far below what is rational to sell. DG has one purpose and that is to get resources into peoples hands for as low a price as possible.
I would probably thought the same thing Mark. As one of my personal pet peeves is ministries that are dominated by a concern for mammon. As far as I am concerned, those types already have their reward.
yeah i hear what you’re saying. It just was surprising to be the first thing to pop out at you. I was not expecting that.
I know that anything they sell they will give for free for those who can’t afford it.