By M. L. Andreasen
We could learn and emulate much from David’s generous nature. How anxious he was to please God can be demonstrated by the personal sacrifice he underwent to build God a permanent dwelling.
There is danger that Christians do too many religious duties not because they have an intense desire to do them, but because it is the custom or because it is required. Duty is a great word; love is a greater word. Love is voluntary, free; duty is exacting, compulsory. Duty is law; love is grace. Both are necessary, and one must not be stressed to the exclusion of the other, but the greater of these is love, for love fulfills duty.
Too many Christians wait to be urged, admonished, encouraged, and even bribed before doing what they should do. Isaiah complains, “There is none…that stirreth up himself.” Isa. 64:7. Such an attitude must weary God. Nothing is
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