While self-focused pleasure is not of Yahweh, neither is an over focus on duty and drudgery.
What "Glorifies God" is a genuine interest in freely loving God and one's fellow humans created in His image.
The sense of this post is an error to the other side of the road. A ditch on either side.
The Tree of the Knowledge of Evil, and Knowledge of Good, are the same tree for a reason. One can never overcome the Knowledge of Evil by working a better Knowledge of Good. They both lead to death.
We must strive to do one thing, only one, enter His Rest.
His rest comes by acknowledging His love for us, returning his love, and through it loving others.
This is our ONLY task. Selah.
PS- Sometimes, more often than we'd like, that love will call us to lay our life, will, wishes, desires, and wants down for others. But if it is love and compassion motivating that decision, while it may be intense, difficult,or even painful, it isn't duty, work, or drudgery... Not if it is of Love Himself. See Steven of Acts for an example of how it works.
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