In chapter 7 he says ‘If we walk away from risk to keep ourselves safe and solvent, we will waste our lives.”  When I think about it, I probably spent the first 50 years of my life trying to “play it safe” and avoiding risks because I thought I might “fail.” I thought that was the “life” God called me to “live”. Piper says “If Christ is an all-satisfying treasure and promises to provide all our needs, even through famine and nakedness, then to live as though we had all the same values as the world would betray him....If we are exiles and refugees on earth(1 Peter 2:11), and if our citizenship is in Heaven (Philippians 3:20), and if nothing can separate us from the love of Christ (Romans 8:35), and if His steadfast love is better than life (Psalm 63:3), and if all hardship is working for us an eternal weight of glory (2Corinthians 4:17), then we will give to the winds our fears and ‘seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness” (Matthew 6:33). We will count everything as rubbish in comparison with Christ (Philippians 3;7-8). We will ‘joyfully accept the plundering of our property’ for the sake of unpopular acts of mercy (Hebrews 10:34). We will choose ‘rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin,’ and we will count ‘the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt (Hebrews 11:25-26).” He goes on to say, “The point is: Jesus loves faith-filled risk for the glory of God.”