Wishing you countless opportunity today, to
be constrained/compelled by love
through Christ to love one another!
By love constrained; oh, what a way to live
To give the best we have for He who gave
Then overthrew the power of the grave
By love constrained; oh, what a way to find
Wisdom and knowledge, divinely designed
Through unsearchable paths man cannot trace
By love constrained; oh, what a way to see
The beauty of the glory of the Lord
When patience, kindness and humility
Revere the recompense of the reward
By love constrained; oh, what a way to lay
Up treasure where no worldliness defiles
Where thief can not break in nor rust decay
The righteousness redemption reconciles
By love constrained; oh, what a way to walk
Love's 'second miles' none but love's Author knows
The Treasurer of life's most priceless stock
No Wall Street-Dow Jones-Nasdaq record shows
By love constrained; oh, what a way to die
Daily to self-pleasing futility
In order so that we may glorify
© Janet Martin
2 Cor.5:14-21
For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all,
therefore all died.
15And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves,
but for Him who died for them and was raised again.
16So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh.
Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.
The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
18All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ
and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
19that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ,
not counting men’s trespasses against them.
And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
20Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ,
as though God were making His appeal through us.
We implore you on behalf of Christ:
Be reconciled to God.
so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
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