Whispers of His Power – JANUARY 7

Rev. 1.18: I have the keys.

This morning I seemed to see life as a series of rooms, each opening into the next, with all the doors locked between room and room, and all the keys in the Hand that opens, and none shall shut, and that shuts, and none opens (Rev. 3.7).

It seemed to me too that He who had the key of David wrote a word over each door, so that His beloved, looking up and reading, might be prepared for what lay ahead.

We shall never pass through the same room twice.  For each one of us our today will tomorrow be that part of eternity which for ever lies behind us. It would be terrible to come out as one went in, no richer for all the love that has been poured out on us.

One day the last room will be passed, the last door shut behind us.  Then Revelation 4.1 will be our joyful word:  ‘After this I looked, and behold, a door was opened in heaven.’

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These words are from ’Whispers of His Power’ a collection of writings that Amy Carmichael wrote for her ‘children’ and others associated with the Dohnavur Fellowship and are Copyright © The Dohnavur Fellowship 1982

Unless otherwise stated, biblical quotations are from the Authorized King James Version of the Bible.

The following abbreviations are used to refer to other versions and sources:

BCP:               Book of Common Prayer, the Great Bible of Coverdale

Conybeare:       W. J. Conybeare, The Epistles of Paul (a translation)

Delitzsch:        F. Delitzsch, Notes on Job and the Psalms

Kay:                W. Kay, The Psalms (a translation)

LXX:              The Septuagint

Moffatt:           J. Moffatt, The New Testament: a new translation

Rotherham:      J. B. Rotherham, The Emphasized Bible Revised Version

RV:                 Revised Version

Way:              A. Way, The Letters of St Paul (a translation)

Westcott:        F. Westcott, Notes on the Gospel of St John

Weymouth:      R. F. Weymouth, The New Testament in Modern Speech

Young:            R. Young, A Literal Translation of the Bible

Verses of poetry without quotation marks were written by Amy Carmichael.