I was really blessed by THIS from today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers:
His Commission to Us
Feed My sheep. —John 21:17
This is love in the making. The love of God is not created—
it is His nature. When we receive the life of Christ through the Holy Spirit,
He unites us with God so that His love is demonstrated in us. The goal of the
indwelling Holy Spirit is not just to unite us with God, but to do it in such a
way that we will be one with the Father in exactly the same way Jesus was. And
what kind of oneness did Jesus Christ have with the Father? He had such a
oneness with the Father that He was obedient when His Father sent Him down here
to be poured out for us. And He says to us, “As the Father has sent Me, I also
send you” (John 20:21).
Peter now realizes that he does love Him, due to the
revelation that came with the Lord’s piercing question. The Lord’s next point
is— “Pour yourself out. Don’t testify about how much you love Me and don’t talk
about the wonderful revelation you have had, just ‘Feed My sheep.’ ” Jesus has
some extraordinarily peculiar sheep: some that are unkempt and dirty, some that
are awkward or pushy, and some that have gone astray! But it is impossible to
exhaust God’s love, and it is impossible to exhaust my love if it flows from
the Spirit of God within me. The love of God pays no attention to my prejudices
caused by my natural individuality. If I love my Lord, I have no business being
guided by natural emotions— I have to feed His sheep. We will not be delivered
or released from His commission to us. Beware of counterfeiting the love of God
by following your own natural human emotions, sympathies, or understandings.
That will only serve to revile and abuse the true love of God.
AMEN! Here are Hillsong Kids with "My Number One!":
Shalom in Him!
