{"id":977,"date":"2010-02-04T07:44:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T15:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/?p=977"},"modified":"2010-02-04T08:57:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T16:57:14","slug":"the-compelling-majesty-of-his-power-2-4-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=977","title":{"rendered":"The Compelling Majesty of His Power 2-4-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"
February 4, 2010<\/div>\n
The Compelling Majesty of His Power<\/div>\n
The love of Christ compels us . . . \u20142 Corinthians 5:14<\/div>\n

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Paul said that he was overpowered, subdued, and held as in a vise by “the love of Christ.” Very few of us really know what it means to be held in the grip of the love of God.\"\"<\/a> We tend so often to be controlled simply by our own experience.The one thing that gripped and held Paul, to the exclusion of everything else, was the love of God. “The love of Christ compels us . . . .” When you hear that coming from the life of a man or woman it is unmistakable. You will know that the Spirit of God is completely unhindered in that person\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

When we are born again by the Spirit of God, our testimony is based solely on what God has done for us, and rightly so. But that will change and be removed forever once you “receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you . . .” (Acts 1:8<\/a> ). Only then will you begin to realize what Jesus meant when He went on to say, “. . . you shall be witnesses<\/em> to Me . . . .” Not witnesses to what Jesus can do\u2014 that is basic and understood\u2014 but “witnesses to Me . . . .”<\/p>\n

We will accept everything that happens as if it were happening to Him, whether we receive praise or blame, persecution or reward. No one is able to take this stand for Jesus Christ who is not totally compelled by the majesty of His power. It is the only thing that matters, and yet it is strange that it\u2019s the last thing we as Christian workers realize.<\/p>\n

\"\"Paul said that he was gripped by the love of God and that is\u00a0why he acted as he did. People could perceive him as mad or sane-he did not care. There was only one thing he lived for\u2014 to persuade people of the coming judgment of God and to tell them of “the love of Christ.”This total surrender to “the love of Christ” is the only thing that will bear fruit in your life. And it will always leave the mark of God\u2019s holiness and His power, never drawing attention to your personal holiness.<\/p>\n

The only thing that matters to paraphrase Oswald and Paul, is our connection and from that (the power of the Holy Spirit) flows our connection and awareness of His love….from that flows our actions that are really His actions through us. When this occurs, we truly and supernaturally understand His love. <\/em><\/p>\n

It is inside of this love and our acting on it that we begin to understand St Francis of Asissi when he said (paraphrase)…we are to\u00a0share the Gospel and use words only when necessary. <\/em>JDV\/DJR<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

February 4, 2010 The Compelling Majesty of His Power The love of Christ compels us . . . \u20142 Corinthians 5:14 Paul said that he was overpowered, subdued, and held as in a vise by “the love of Christ.” Very few of us really know what it means to be held in the grip of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}