Risk Is Right—Better to Lose Your Life Than to Waste It

Risk Is Right—
Better to Lose Your Life
Than to Waste It

Therefore risk is woven into the fabric of our finite lives. We cannot
avoid risk even if we want to. Ignorance and uncertainty
about tomorrow is our native air. All of our plans for tomorrow’s
activities can be shattered by a thousand unknowns whether we
stay at home under the covers or ride the freeways. One of my
aims is to explode the myth of safety and to somehow deliver you
from the enchantment of security. Because it’s a mirage. It doesn’t
exist. Every direction you turn there are unknowns and things
beyond your control.
The tragic hypocrisy is that the enchantment of security lets
us take risks every day for ourselves but paralyzes us from taking
risks for others on the Calvary road of love. We are deluded
and think that it may jeopardize a security that in fact does not
even exist. The way I hope to explode the myth of safety and to
disenchant you with the mirage of security is simply to go to the
Bible and show that it is right to risk for the cause of Christ, and
not to is to waste your life.

*Don't Waste Your Life*
By John Piper