It’s all I could about yesterday, so it’s today’s post. Two things directed me to it two days ago. John Piper in Don’t Waste Your Life (Wheaton: Crossway, 2003) 45–46. Over against that, I put my protest: Don’t buy it. And people today are spending billions of dollars to persuade you to embrace that tragic dream. Picture them before Christ at the great day of judgment: ‘Look, Lord.
Tragically, this was the dream: Come to the end of your life-your one and only precious, God-given life-and let the last great work of your life, before you give an account to your Creator, be this: playing softball and collecting shells.
Now they live in Punta Gorda, Florida, where they cruise on their 30 foot trawler, play softball, and collect shells.”Īt first, when I read it I thought it might be a joke. Consider a story from the February 1998 edition of Reader’s Digest, which tells about a couple who “took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days.
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