The love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: 

one died for the sake of all; 

therefore, all died. 

He died for the sake of all so that those who are alive should live not for themselves but for the one who died for them and was raised.

2 Corinthians 5:14-15 CEB

I wonder what Paul is thinking of with the "all died" comment - perhaps that some part of himself that was driving him - even though (just like us) Jesus death had already happened some time before he gave up his old life and embraced the new. 

It's like the weight of something has been lifted, or perhaps shifted, to Jesus when he died, yet, we still hold it, still carry it. 

What's the "it" for you?

Could it be giving too much thought to what others think?

Too much striving for things that don't really matter?

We all have an "it", probably several! 

I can still go to school, to work, to sport, to make breakfast, but my worth is not measured by my success there, or wherever. It's the love of Jesus that compels and controls, he's taken the weight of this life, and we can step into our day lighter for that as we hand more and more of the weight to Him.

His yoke is easy, his burden light, and He invites us to let go of the "it", because He already carries it. 

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