Whispers of His Power – MAY 15

Rev. 3.18:  I counsel thee to buy of Me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich.

Rev. 21.18:  Pure gold, like unto clear glass.

When God, the Creator of metals, chooses a metal to signify something He wants us to possess, His thought includes all which that metal is.

‘Of all metals gold is the most malleable and ductile.  It can be beaten into plates of leaves so thin that it takes 300,000 of them placed one above another to make one inch, and the gold then is transparent enough to allow rays of light to pass through?

The word malleable comes from the Latin and means a metal that can be hammered out.  Ductile is also from the Latin and means capable of being drawn out into wire;  the dictionary gives ‘tough, tractable, docile’ among its meanings.

It is only beaten gold that is like unto clear glass.  The hammer has fallen on that gold till there is nothing left but a golden transparency.  I counsel thee to buy of Me gold tried in the fire – pure gold, like unto clear glass.  The fire comes first, then the hammer.  Is the price to be paid to buy such gold a willingness for the fire and the hammer?

And ductile, leadable.  An Indian goldsmith can draw out a piece of gold in wires as fine as a hair.  That quality which Paul calls the meekness and gentleness of Christ (2 Cor, 10.1) is not naturally in us.  We are not ‘tough’ yet ‘tractable’ and ‘docile’.  I counsel thee to buy of Me.

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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.