Whispers of His Power – APRIL 18
The only thing that can hinder a life from telling for Him is the mind that puts self in the centre, and the mind that refuses suffering.
The only thing that can hinder a life from telling for Him is the mind that puts self in the centre, and the mind that refuses suffering.
If for any good reason we cannot gather our spiritual food on some particular day, God makes it all right. But this does not alter the ordinary rule of daily gathering our daily portion.
I have been making a list of figs, those little things not worth caring about and yet about which we are sometimes tempted to grumble.
Perhaps we shall see the angels first, as I suppose the happy Lazarus did when he was ‘carried by angels’ all the way home. But that will only be the beginning of joy.
Evil seems at present to be terrifically strong, and it seems to be triumphing everywhere. But it is on its way to its end. Good, not evil, will triumph.
The Lord is our Confidence? Shall we say it to our own hearts when they are tempted to fear
the way to show true sympathy is not to pity, but to stand by and strengthen the sufferer to do God’s will.
Whispers of His Power – APRIL 10 NOTE: In many years of reading Amy’s work I have never come across words that are as jarring as these. I can understand her words if she is speaking of our own journeys and needing to ‘hate’ that within us that is not lovely. For that reason I’ve decided… Continue reading Whispers of His Power – APRIL 10
Look, and as you look a change will pass over you. You will see that what previously looked impossible is really the only possible thing for a follower of the Crucified to do.
….as the empty shell on the shore is filled with the fullness of the sea as it washes up and over it, so we may be filled to the brim and to overflowing with the fullness of God.