A Devotion from Oswald Chambers

John 21.17 This is love in the making. The love of God is un-made, it is God’s nature. When we

receive the Holy Spirit He unites us with God so that His love is manifested in us. When the soul

is united to God by the indwelling Holy Spirit, that is not the end; the end is that we may be one

with the Father as Jesus was. What kind of oneness had Jesus Christ with the Father? Such a

oneness that the Father sent him down here to be spent for us, and He says—“As the Father

hath sent Me, even so send I you.”

Peter realizes now with the revelation of the Lord’s hurting question that he does love Him;

then comes the point—Spend it out. Don’t testify how much you love Me, don’t profess about

the marvellous revelation you have had, but—“Feed My sheep.” And Jesus has some

extraordinarily funny sheep, some bedraggled, dirty sheep, some awkward butting sheep, some

sheep that have gone astray! It is impossible to weary God’s love, and it is impossible to weary

that love in me if it springs from the one centre. The love of God pays no attention to the

distinctions made by natural individuality. If I love my Lord I have no business to be guided by

natural temperament; I have to feed His sheep. There is no relief and no release from this

commission. Beware of counterfeiting the love of God by working along the line of natural

human sympathy, because that will end in blaspheming the love of God.