A Pleasure More Than An Obligation

Christians are often portrayed as downcast and dour, as people who are trapped in a system of beliefs that robs them of joy and life. And with a bit of honest self-examination, we can probably think of times when we have fit the cliché. Yet any fault in this is ours, for as Charles Spurgeon says so well, true faith is meant to be inseparable from deep delight, “as interwoven as root and flower, as indivisible as truth and certainty.” God’s desire for us is not to live in captiv