All heroes are shadows of Christ
John PiperDesire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.
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Jesus - “the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily” (Colossians 2:9).
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Was that a tragedy? Two lives, driven by one great passion, namely, to be spent in unheralded service to the perishing poor for the glory of Jesus Christ—even two decades after most of their American counterparts had retired to throw away their lives on trifles. No, that is not a tragedy. That is a glory. These lives were not wasted. And these lives were not lost. “Whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it” (Mark 8:35).
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He is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.
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God without Christ is no God.
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I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end.” - Paul
John PiperLife is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to help us feel in our bones (not just know in our heads) that God is for us in all these strange turns. God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching purposes for our good and for the glory of Jesus Christ.
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We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.
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At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.
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