From Duty and Obligation

Living a life from this kills you. You die a little bit everyday. It takes away the light inside of you, and the enthusiasm you once had dies away.

You hope to be rewarded for your faithful diligence, patience and endurance of tough situations and sure you do but it's not enough, you want more and why? Because you were made to live in desire, delight, passion, bliss and glee.

Living from such a front leaves you bitter and resentful because you haven't lived out the desires God has placed in your heart.

Each time you function from duty you betray your heart.

Living from a point of desire isn't sinful, it's been made to look that way by culture, that's why we feel guilty each time we indulge in things that ring a tune in our hearts.

Choose to live happily

Could it be that we were built for pleasure? Why do you think God put desire for pleasure in us? Is it so that we could lose focus?

I don't think so, what I think is this. Wrong teachings about pleasure and desire have been taught to us from a tender age and we have heard it all our lives making it very difficult to break away from it and we feel guilty every time we enjoy ourselves.

We are forced to choose between delight and duty whereas it shouldn't be a choice in the first place.

Reverse The Curse

In reality delight is a part of us so every time we are forced to choose, we have such a hard time because we're betraying what's in our hearts, we're trying to go against the grain, we're so to speak fighting ourselves!

So how do we reverse the curse?

We've been raised in a working culture where everything screams work and effort and yet what we work for is so that we can enjoy life and have nice things to appeal to the wishes in our souls.

Do you find anything wrong with this statement? Here let me answer for you, yes there is something absolutely wrong.

We should work from a place of desire and delight work on the things you are passionate about and not necessarily from duty and obligation. This may look close to impossible to do but it's possible.

Just stop being afraid and go for a life of delight that's yours for the asking and taking.

God came to give us life in abundance, not a life that breaks our backs, not a life that's sombre.

Why would God want a sulking bunch of people following Him and hope to have the world believe in Him?

I don't know about you but I'm tired of having to live by obligation, duty and a work mindset kind of life. I want to venture out into the fullness of the life God ordained for me, I want to live away from duty and obligation to delight in His presence evermore.