Today I want to again share a portion of "My Utmost For His Highest by Oswald Chambers.
For the love of Christ constraineth us. — 2 Corinthians 5:14
Paul
says he is overruled, overmastered, held as in a vice, by the love of Christ.
Very few of us know what it means to be held in a grip by the love of God; we
are held by the constraint of our experience only. The one thing that held
Paul, until there was nothing else on his horizon, was the love of God. “The
love of Christ constraineth us” — when you hear that note in a man or woman,
you can never mistake it. You know that the Spirit of God is getting unhindered
way in that life.
... No one can stand like that for Jesus Christ who is not
constrained by the majesty of His personal power. It is the only thing that
matters, and the strange thing is that it is the last thing realised by the
Christian worker. Paul says he is gripped by the love of Christ; that is why he
acts as he does. Men may call him mad or sober, but he does not care; there is
only one thing he is living for, and that is to persuade men of the judgment
seat of God, and of the love of Christ. This abandon to the love of Christ is
the one thing that bears fruit in the life, and it will always leave the
impression of the holiness and of the power of God, never of our personal
holiness.
I especially love the very last line! The last thing that I EVER desire to do is to bring attention to myself. Without HIM, I am NOTHING! Every good thing about me comes from the One, True, Most High, Living, Almighty God of the Bible! The ONLY way to get to that position of strength and humility is to love the Lord with everything within you and then to make HIS priorities your own! We CANNOT out-give the God of the Bible. What we sow into others in the areas of time, energy and resources, WILL be multiplied back into our own lives, here and now. Now THAT is a great way to LIVE! AMEN! Here is Hillsong United with "Search My Heart":
Shalom in Him!
