Joe Parekh’s Reviews > Don't Waste Your Life > Status Update

It is right to risk for the cause of Christ. If we are not taking risks, we remain comfortable. Risking our lives for the cause of Christ is not a wasted life. To begin taking risks, we must become forgiving people. Strive to live a selfless life that makes others glad in Christ. To live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Everything leads back to the cross. That is the focal point of our life and our relationship with God. Every struggle and hardship produces endurance, and endurance leads to character, and character produces hope. With every suffering we endure, we can always rejoice because it always leads us to hope—the hope that draws us back to the cross. We are undeserving of everything good and everything evil turned good.

Piper dives deep on the matter of what it is like to be truly loved by God and how we are supposed to live like we are loved. Is it to truly exalt Him in everything we do?