Whispers of His Power – APRIL 9
Ps. 119.32: I will run the way of Thy commandments, when Thou shalt enlarge my heart.
Are you thinking something is impossible to do? Perhaps you don’t see why it should be done at all.
There are two possible reasons for this. One is a kind of smallness of heart that the devil delights to encourage. The other is a dullness of sight that comes only too easily if we look at ourselves and not ‘away unto’ our Lord Jesus.
The one certain way of escape from these two conditions is: Look at Calvary. Look till your dull eyes clear and you see Love that poured forth all, counting nothing too precious to give for love of you. Don’t hurry away. 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. It will be as if scales fell from your eyes (as they did from Paul’s), and you will see clearly again.
Then your narrow heart will become enlarged and you will run to do what you could not even crawl towards doing before.
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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.
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