Exodus 12:21-51; Psalm 45:1-46:11; Acts 6:1-15
For the love of Christ constraineth us. 2 Corinthians 5:14
Wuest’s translation gives us a lovely expansion of this verse: “For the love which Christ has [for me] presses on me from all sides, holding me to one end and prohibiting me from considering any other, wrapping itself around me in tenderness, giving me an impelling motive”. If you need extra motivation this year as you serve the Lord and His people, give careful consideration to this verse, and to the many others that give expression to God’s impelling love. The great love of Christ should always be our motive for serving Him.—Elizabeth C. Bishop
Could we with ink the ocean fill, and were the skies of parchment made;
Were every stalk on earth a quill, and every man a scribe by trade;
To write the love of God above, would drain the ocean dry;
Nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky. —Frederick Lehman