I will tell you what a tragedy is. I will show you how to waste your life. Consider a story from the February 1998 edition of Reader's Digest, which tells about a couple who "took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta Gorda, Florida, where they cruise on their 30 foot trawler, play softball and collect shells." At first, when I read it I thought it might be a joke. A spoof on the American Dream. But it wasn't. Tragically, this was the dream: Come to the end of your life--your one and only precious, God-given life--and let the last great work of your life, before you give an account to your Creator, be this: playing softball and collecting shells. Picture them before Christ at the great day of judgment: "Look, Lord. See my shells." That is a tragedy. And people today are spending billions of dollars to persuade you to embrace that tragic dream. Over against that, I put my protest: Don't buy it. Don't waste your life. (John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life, pg.46)
Mark 8:36 What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?
People, truth be told, we will all stand before Christ for the life we live here on earth. And a life lived apart from God will be spent in eternity hell apart from God. You might ask, what does hell looks like?
Matthew 22:13 'Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
Don't Waste Your Life! Jesus Christ saves us from the American Dream!
Philippians 1:21 For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
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