I am apprehended of Christ Jesus, PHI 3:12

 To be apprehended is to be taken--seized--arrested. When a policeman apprehends a person he is taken prisoner. This is what Paul meant when he said, "I am apprehended of Christ Jesus."

Paul had received license to bind, "the disciples of the Lord," and cast them into prison, when "suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven," and he "heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?" ACT 9:1-4.

Paul became a prisoner of Jesus Christ. As soon as almighty grace arrested him, the power of sin and Paul's heart were broken. "And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?"

One of those poor saints whom Saul had thought to hail to prison, was commanded to come and pray for him that his eyes might be opened. After being baptized, Saul of Tarsus, as the prisoner of Christ Jesus, became the great apostle and witness of his Lord--Jesus Christ, ACT 9:6-12.

The apostle Paul, like you and me, became a captive and servant of Satan in the fall of Adam. We have no might against Satan until Christ lays His hand upon us and seizes us, LUK 11:21-22. When we are arrested by the grace of God, all our resistance ends and we surrender ourselves as prisoners of Christ.

Paul said, "I am apprehended of Christ," in the present-tense. Christ still binds us with the fetters of His love. Our lovely Lord still holds us bound under the chains of the omnipotent fascination of His beauty. King Solomon described this beauty in his SONG 5:10-16 as, "the chiefest among ten thousand," and the "altogether lovely."

O the delights, the heavenly joys,
The glories of the place,
Where Jesus sheds the brightest beams
Of His o'erflowing grace.
 
Sweet majesty and awful love
Sit smiling on His brow,
And all the glorious ranks above
At humble distance bow.
 
Lord, how our souls are all on fire
To see thy bless'd abode!
Our tongues rejoice in tunes of praise
to our incarnate God.
 
And while our faith enjoys this sight,
We long to leave our clay;
And wish thy fiery chariots, Lord,
To fetch our souls away.

To those who are still bound by Satan, Jesus "...hath no form nor comeliness ... there is no beauty that we should desire Him," ISA 53:2. The saints are so bound by the beauty of Christ they could not depart from Him if they would.

Jesus said unto the twelve, "Will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God," JOH 6:67-69.

Christ's love and His crucified hands hold us faster than any fetters of brass, "...bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ," 2CO 10:5-6. Christ's prisoners become volunteers in serving the Lord. There is no forceful servitude. "Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth," PSA 110:3.

The Lord has predestined to apprehend His people, that they might become Christ-like. "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren," ROM 8:29.