Love Is Calling

It is the love of Christ that is calling you, to baptize you in the heart love of God. Your response to that love call sets you apart unto Him. You are His. He is yours. You are in Him. He is in you. We are talking about an intimate relationship here. We are one with each other. We are intertwined in each other’s lives. No more of you. All of Him. You have taken His name. You are a Christ-ian, a little anointed one.

Can you hear Him calling? He is calling you to higher places in Himself. He is calling you to a life full of His goodness and mercy. He is calling you to a life of health and wholeness. He is calling you to a life of prosperity. He is calling you to His fullness of zoe life, His life, His nature, His ability, His knowledge, His wisdom, His riches in glory. What a life we have laid out before us in Him.

This response to His calling of love turns us into a love child of God. His love then constrains us as we read in 2 Corinthians 5:14: For the love of Christ constrains us…. The Wuest translation says: The love which Christ has for me presses on me from all sides, wraps itself around me in tenderness. The Philips translation says: The very spring of our actions is the love of Christ. The Moffatt’s translation says: I am controlled by the love of Christ.

What does this word constrain mean? When something or someone constrains you, they control you and urge you on to do that which they are urging you to do. The Webster’s 1828 Dictionary lists the definition of constrain in 2 Corinthians 5:14 as the love which urges with irresistible power, or with a power sufficient to produce the effect.

The love of God, Love Himself, is calling you to, is wrapping Himself around you in tenderness, is pressing you from all sides, is controlling you so that the very springboard of all your actions is the love of Christ. Yes, we receive that love power which is sufficient to produce God's results for ourselves and others.

Love Himself is calling you!