Wartime lifestyle (Part 4)

In his book Don’t Waste Your Life, John Piper says in part about his use of the phrase “wartime lifestyle:”

"Being spent" may sound dour. It is not. It is life-giving when we are spent to make others glad in God. Jesus taught us that "whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel's will save it" (Mark 8:35). . . .

Using our possessions in a way that makes the most needy glad in God would save us in more ways than one. It would confirm that Christ is our Treasure, and thus keep us on the path to heaven. And it would transform our society, which is driven by the suicidal craving to satisfy itself with no joy in Christ and no love for the needy. To rescue us from this tragedy we should ponder seriously the importance of a wartime lifestyle.