Whispers of His Power – JANUARY 17

Job 28.3: He setteth an end to darkness.

These words are spoken of the miner who is searching for precious stones, which are buried in the dark mine.  He goes into these dark places and lights them, and so ends the darkness, and he finds the jewels hidden there.

We are here to do that very thing.  We have for light the presence and the promises of God.  There may be someone whom we are trying to help;  we are trying to bring out of the dark mine of that personality precious jewels for our Lord.  Perhaps we are terribly tempted to despair, because of continual disappointments and what seems like hopeless weakness of character.  But we are not alone.  The search, the long effort, is lighted by the presence of our God.  He is not baffled by personality.  His promises are light.

So let us go on, despairing of no man, for the jewel mine is His.  He died to purchase it.  Behold, all souls are Mine, is His word (Ezek. 18.4).

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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.