I really identify with today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers.
The Overmastering Majesty Of Personal Power
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.
When we are born again of the Spirit of God, the note of
testimony is on what God has done for us, and rightly so. But the baptism of
the Holy Ghost obliterates that for ever, and we begin to realize what Jesus
meant when He said — “Ye shall be witnesses unto Me.” Not witnesses to what
Jesus can do — that is an elementary witness — but “witnesses unto Me.” We
will take everything that happens as happening to Him, whether it be praise or
blame, persecution or commendation. 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.
AMEN! Here are Hillsong Kids with "As The World Shakes":
Shalom in Him!
