John Piper writes in the book Don't Waste Your Life: "God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives."

Listen to John Piper discuss more fully how not to waste your life in this 2-minute audio question and answer.