I am currently, and slowly, reading through John Piper’s Don’t Waste Your Life. I must admit that the first couple of chapters have been a little on the slow side…but that’s because much of it has been background material. This morning the reading turned a corner. Here is an excerpt I had to share:

You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know a few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and hen be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing. If you want your life to count…you have to know a few great, majestic, unchanging, obvious, simple, glorious things—or one great all-embracing thing—and be set on fire by them.

John Piper, Don’t Waste Your Life, page 44.

Now that’s something I can sink my teeth into. Yes, it reminds me a little bit of the scene from City Slickerswhere Jack Palance tells Billy Crystal he has to find”that one thing”…but there is often truth in movies…you just ave to look hard for it sometimes.

So what is that one thing…or those few things…that you are mastering in your life? What guides and directs your compass? What are you set on fire by? I hope that the first thing is Christ…knowing Him and walking with Him. If not, start there.

After that…therein lies the beauty. God made you and designed you for your purpose. Part of the fun is finding out what that is and giving yourself to it 100%. Happy hunting!