By Love Constrained/Compelled

Wishing you countless opportunity today, to

be constrained/compelled by love 

through Christ to love one another!

Come, Gracious Spirit

By love constrained; oh, what a way to live

To give the best we have for He who gave

Himself; ‘neath driven nails He cried ‘forgive’

Then overthrew the power of the grave

By love constrained; oh, what a way to find

The depth of riches God grants, by His grace

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

No longer ‘I’, but Christ in you and me

© 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. 

21God made Him who knew no sin to be sinb on our behalf, 

so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

All My Boast is in Jesus