Stirring words from Piper's "Don't Waste Your Life" (a book that I can't seem to get through after 2 years)...
Oh, that young and old would turn off the television, take a long walk, and dream about feats of courage for a cause ten thousand time more important than American democracy-as precious as that is. If we would dream and if we would pray, would God not answer? Would he withhold from us a life of joyful love and mercy and sacrifice that magnifies Christ and makes people glad in God? I plead with you, as I pray for myself, set your face like flint to join Jesus on the Calvary road. "Let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured. For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come" (Hebrews 13:13-14.) When they see our sacrificial love-radiant with joy-will they not say, "Christ is Great?"
