Whispers of His Power –  MARCH 3

Ps. 73.25:  Whom have I in heaven but Thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside Thee.

We all know the hymn ‘Jesu, Lover of my soul’.  The line ‘Thou, O Christ, art all I want’, comes to us with searching power.  It is strangely easy to want Him and a great many other things too.  We want to do what we want to do, and to be where we want to be.  This is not desiring Christ our Lord and His will only.  It is not, ‘Thou, O Christ, art ALL I want’.

Our Lord wants us to come to the place where we can truly say with David that there is no one and nothing on earth that we desire beside Him.  David goes on in the next verse, My flesh and my heart faileth, and that is often our experience too.  But David does not stop there, and neither need we.  He ends with a triumphant But God.

Verse 26: But God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

‘Thou, O Christ, art all I want;

More than all in Thee I find:’

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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.