In a recent tweet, John Piper said:

If you are having trouble reading your Bible with deep and affecting meaning, imagine that you will die in about eight hours.

In other words, if the Bible isn’t doing it for you, the next time you read it, imagine someone is holding a gun to your head. That should make those Scripture passages pop.

I can only imagine how he would advise someone struggling to get through “War and Peace.”

And what would John Piper be doing if he found out he had only eight hours to live? Tweeting “Farewell”?