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This might sound familiar to you, because i based it on John Lennon's "Nowhere Man". I'm not a fan of him but i can just relate with this song. Last 2008 I felt like I was living in vanity. Everything got no sense at all. And i thought that i wasted my year 2008. I don't wanna continue wasting my life. I wanna find the essence of my life. The thought of coming to my old age and saying through tears, "I've wasted it! I've wasted it!" was a fearful and horrible thought to me.
I read a book by JOhn Piper entitled, "Don't Waste Your Life". I can't forget this quote he used:
Only one life,
'Twill soon be past;
Only what's done
for Christ will last
To the left, beside these words, was a painted green hill with two trees and a brown path that disappeared over the hill. The message was clear. You get one pass at life. That's all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.
What would it mean to waste my life? That was a burning question. Or, more positively, what would it mean to live well--not to waste life, but to...? HOw to finish that sentence was the question. I was not even sure how to put the question into words, let alone what the answer might be. What was the oppsite of not wasting my life? "To be successful in a career?" Or "to be maximally happy"? Ot "to accomplish something great"? Or "to help as many people as possible"? Or "to serve Christ to the full"? Or "to glorify God in all I do"? Or was there a point, a purpose, a focus, an essence to life that would fulfill every one of those dreams?