The Christian life certainly includes duty, but its glory extends beyond duty and into a total, holistic salvation experience. To simply do my duty or do only what I’m commanded to do is to miss the essence of God’s desire for me, that being an all-encompassing experience of eternal life. I’m never just this or just that. I’m never just a soldier or just a bride, just a servant or just a son. For a moment or even a season I may have just one particular role, but never for my whole life am I meant to be anything but God’s. And He will lead me on a journey through love, labor, war, feasting, fasting, pleasure, pain… all of which will require of me a different role, and all of which are intended by God to show me His heart and the extravagant riches of His love and to complete and perfect that which concerns me. thoughtsofriley.wordpress.com

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