God-centered resources from the ministry of John Piper

Most people think of a sticker as an insignificant little decoration to go on a car bumper or a kid's toy or a guitar case. But I've seen a sticker accomplish significant things.

Once, at a little Mexican place called El Mirador in Pismo Beach, CA, I met a middle-aged man sitting across the booth from his elderly father. While I was ordering, he read my T-shirt.

"What does 'Don't Waste Your Life' mean?" He had a gruff voice, a pony-tail under a baseball cap, and smelled like cigarettes.

"Well, what do you think it means to not waste your life?" I asked.

"You just gotta work hard and be good to people and love your family as best you can," he said.

I handed him a sticker. On the front was the phrase, "Don't Waste Your Life," and on the back was a single sentence:

The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is.

I talked with him for a few minutes about why that statement is true and why a life for Christ is more than all good intentions and family and hard work.

There was no miraculous breakthrough at that little Mexican restaurant. He probably finished his taco and had a cigarette. But I gave him the sticker, and I pray God uses the truth on it to stir his heart and open his eyes to the only lasting treasure in the universe: Jesus Christ. If God is "able to do far more abundantly than all we can ask or imagine," then he is certainly able to use a sticker for His kingdom.

We have several new products that we hope will help you reach others with the message that Jesus is a worthwhile treasure—these stickers, as well as a DWYL-themed poster and some journals. Of course, in themselves they are insignificant, but we hope and trust that through Christ, they will become tools to accomplish his significant work.