"Don't Waste Your Life" - (Link of the Day)

I read a great little excerpt, at Christian Liberty, from a book by John Piper called: Don't Waste Your Life (Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway Books, 2003). The book is a sobering message to Christians, compelling them, not to retire to complacency, but to "joyfully display" God's "supreme excellence in all spheres of life". The tragedy of the unbeliever's life is presented against what the life of a passionate Christian should be. I plan to read this book so that I can more adequetly review its content. In the meantime, here is a quote from the book:

Television is one of the greatest life-wasters of the modern age. And, of
course, the Internet is running to catch up, and may have caught up. You can be
more selective on the Internet, but you can also select worse things with only
the Judge of the universe watching. TV still reigns as the great life-waster.
The main problem with TV is not how much smut is available, though that is a
problem. Just the ads are enough to sow fertile seeds of greed and lust, no
matter what program you're watching. The greater problem is banality. 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. The content is so trivial and
so shallow that the capacity of the mind to think worthy thoughts withers, and
the capacity of the heart to feel deep emotions shrivels....
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