I've
heard people talk about our Christian duty – to live holy lives, to
share our faith, etc. And we should live holy lives and share our
faith and all that. But out of some sense of “Christian duty”? I
think that's the wrong paradigm. Duty is often a synonym for
drudgery.
Think
of it this way. It's a husband's duty to make love to his wife, but
he seldom thinks of it as duty. It's something he looks forward to,
because he loves his wife and it's way fun.
We
should have the same mindset about living a Christian life, sharing
our faith, etc. And if we really knew Jesus as our soul-lover we
would. Our lover-king.
Living
holy is So. Much. Fun. And sharing our faith – if we really knew
God, we'd love it. The Holy Spirit shows up with words-of-knowledge
for the other person, and maybe we get to pray for physical or
emotional healing or something. I mean, how cool is it to do
miracles, right?
Doing
things out of lover-pleasure beats duty any day of the week.
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