“This is what you should teach me, how to be like Odysseus—how to love my country, wife and father, and how, even after suffering shipwreck, I might keep sailing on course to those honorable ends.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 88.7b

There’s room to breathe in this reality. And room to obey with heads held high, straightened backs, soft hearts, and thick skins. It is for freedom we’ve been set free. When Paul gives the pastoral admonition to Timothy to “flee” sins and “pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness” (1 Tim. 6:11), he is picturing a cont

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