Constrained

2 Cor. 5:14-15, "For the love of Christ constrains us...".

This word 'constrains' in the Koine Greek is 'sunecho', from sun, a primary preposition denoting 'union; with or together.’ It is a word much closer than 'meta' which means 'association, accompaniment,' and much closer than 'para' which means 'near, beside, in the vicinity.' The other part of 'sunecho' is' echo', a primary verb which means 'to hold; it means possession, it speaks of relation and condition.'

This word sunecho speaks of the oneness and intimacy that we have in Christ, in our position in Him, that He desires for us to experience at all times.

The Lord's true prayer, as He was facing the Cross, was that we would be one with Him and the Father. The oneness and intimacy, a very love-life that nothing could disturb or distract.

Christ Himself holds us together like a vice, or like two pieces of metal now welded together. This new life of ours in Christ is superior to every single thing that you and I face here. Christ has welded us together and goes through with us, whatever it is that He will reveal to us, and whoever, or whatever, just how much of a conqueror we are in and with Him.

No evil by the enemy can touch the superiority of Christ our life, who has welded us together with Him, and in Him. He, who has welded us together, with a love that nothing can touch, HAS conquered satan, death, sin, the flesh, and this evil world system.

This whole evil world system of satan is dead as far as God is concerned. Our privilege is to live in the life that Christ is in us, and not live in the dead self-life.

You and I are more than conquerors, in and through all these things, through Him that loved us.

(Jhn.17:1-26; Col. 3:1-4; Gal. 6:14; 1 Jhn. 2:15-17; 4:10,19; Rom. 8:31-39; Heb. 2:14-15; 1 Cor. 15:54-58).