A wonderful professor of mine once preached a message on wasting our lives for Jesus and he concluded the message with saying a very pointed phrase, "I hope you waste your lives."
This point comes from the Gospel's account of the woman who came to Jesus and broke a very expensive jar of perfume open in order to use it to annoint Jesus. The perfume took a year's wages to attain but was poured out in one moment. She did this to show her love and undying devotion for Him, yet Jesus' disciples exclaimed, "Lord, it is wasted!"
I couldn't imagine taking a year's worth of my savings and "blowing it" on something or pouring it out. It would seem like a waste - a year of work for one moment, forcing myself to get up every day to work somewhere when I didn't want to for hours on end - for one moment.
I hope I waste my life though, just like this woman wasted her perfume in the disciple's eyes. After the disciples exclaimed that it was wasted and how the perfume could have been sold and used for better purposes, Jesus explained that what the woman did was good. She was expressing her love for Jesus by seemingly wasting something of extreme value.
In reference to this passage I wrote a song called All That Matters. The following is an excerpt:
"All that matters is that I'm with You
whether time stands still or flies right by
And I don't wanna waste my life on just anything
it's my delight to waste it on You"
Let's make a deal to get rid of things in our lives that are temporary and ungodly to waste our lives on Him by glorifying Him and expressing our love. As the quote goes (which I may have the exact words wrong) "He is not a fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
Let's waste our lives until the world's not worthy. (Heb. 11)
