Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Donโt coast through life without a passion.
John PiperAll the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.
John PiperJames says, "You desire and do not have; so you kill" (Jas. 4:2). We kill marriages and we kill unborn babies because they cut across our desires; they stand in the way of our unencumbered self-enhancement. And we live in a culture where self-enhancement and self-advancement is god. And if self-enhancement is god, then the One who is at work in the womb shaping a person in His own image is not God and the assault on His work is not sacrilegious, but obedience to the god of self.
John Piper