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What is the soil of your heart like? Is it growing and producing fruit for the Kingdom of Heaven – are you using your life for eternity?

1. Quote: “I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end.” - Paul”

― John Piper, Don’t Waste Your Life

2. “God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.”

― John Piper, Don’t Waste Your Life

3. “You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.”

― John Piper, Don’t Waste Your Life

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