Oswald Chambers – My Utmost for His Highest – Tuesday, 4 February
2014 “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
realized by the Christian worker. Paul says he is gripped by the love of God,
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.
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