I just read this, and it's a great book! It goes deep into the matter of what it means to waste your life, how not to waste your life, and how to find joy. John Piper expresses his thoughts very well. Here are a few excerpts from the book:
"God created me--and you--to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion--namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life."
"We waste our lives when we do not pray and think and dream and plan and work toward magnifying God in all spheres of life. God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is."
"The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness."
"Television is one of the greatest life-wasters of the modern age. And, of course, the Internet is running to catch up....The main problem with TV is not how much smut is available....A mind fed daily on TV diminishes. Your mind was made to know and love God. Its facility for this great calling is ruined by excessive TV. It's content is so trivial and so shallow that the capacity of the mind to think worthy thoughts withers...."
"Since we all live in a world created by television, it is almost impossible to see what has happened to us. The only hope is to read what people were like in previous centuries. Biographies are a great antidote to cultural myopia and chronological snobbery."
"Is then their joy a resting in your worth or in their own?"
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