Whispers of His Power –  MARCH 13

Matt. 11.28:  Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 

Heb. 4.10-11:  For he that has entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works… Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest.

Labour in Hebrews 4.11 means ‘make haste’.  Is the word used to remind us that we shall not drift into rest?  There must be the will to enter in.  Perhaps what demands most will power is the resolution to cease from our own works, our own busy-ness, and to stay our minds upon our God.

We pray, and the answer is not what we expect.  It seems an answer of loss, and sometimes loss upon loss.  We must cease from our own thoughts about it and believe that what He has allowed is the perfect answer for the moment.  As we believe, and accept, we enter into rest and the sense of strain passes into peace.

This covers all life:  the illness of those we love, mental or spiritual suffering, the unexplained, everything.  Let us not lose one hour in needless ineffective distress. Let us hasten by an act of the will to come to Him for rest.

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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.