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Life as a Vapor: 31 Meditations for Your Faith is unavailable, but you can change that!

Life Is Short. Eternity Is Long. Live Like It. You will exist forever. You and God are both in the universe to stay—either as friends on his terms, or enemies on yours. Which it will be is proven in this life. And this life is a vapor. Two seconds, and we will be gone. Surely God means for our time on earth to count for something significant. In these thirty-one meditations, John Piper will...

Sandwiched between the command to lay up treasures in heaven (6:19–21) and the warning that you can’t serve God and money (6:24) are the strange words about the eye being the lamp of the body. If the eye is good, or healthy (literally, “if the eye is single”), the whole body will be full of light. But if the eye is bad, the body will be full of darkness. In other words: How you see reality determines whether you are in the dark or not. Now why is this saying about the good and bad eye sandwiched
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