Weekly Pursuit – Week 4 of November
Verses:
2 Cor. 5:15 “And He died for all that those who live may no longer live to themselves but to Him who died for them and has been raised.”
Excerpts:
As an ambassador of Christ, Paul realized that whatever was within him, whatever he was, and whatever he had was mortal. Our wisdom is mortal, and our ability is mortal. Whatever we can do, we are, and we have is going to die. This is why we should not have any trust in what we are. We are mortal beings, but God has wrought into us some thing which is eternal, something which will never die, something which will last forever. Because we have received the Lord Jesus and He lives in us, we possess His eternal divinity. Eventually, mortality will be swallowed up by the divine life.
Paul was a person who lived to the Lord. Another item which equips us to be the ambassadors of Christ is the constraining love of Christ. In 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 Paul tells us that the dying love of Christ is like the rushing of great waters toward us, impelling us to live to Him beyond our own control. We need to be constrained by His love so that we have no choice. I have prayed day by day for years that the Lord would show me His love so that I could be constrained by the love of Christ. I prayed in this way: “Lord, constrain me with Your love. O Lord, flood me with Your love.” [You] may have many choices, but once they are flooded by the love of Christ, [you] lose all the choices. ( An Autobiography of a Person in the Spirit, ch. 6)
Related Posts
Tags
Share This
