Whispers of His Power – MAY 22

1 John 1.1:  That which… our hands have handled, of the Word of life.

Luke 24.39:  Handle Me, and see.

That handling is not for us, but even so the word shows something that belongs to us all.

We sing, ‘When I survey the wondrous cross’.  How much do we ‘survey’?  How real is it to us?  Those wounds, how much do they truly mean to us?

If only once and for one moment a deep insight were given us, and we saw and our hands ‘handled’ these sacred things, everything in life would fall into its right place.  We should never make our molehills into mountains.  All that is appointed for us would seem as nothing in comparison with that which our hands had handled of the Word of Life, who for our sake was made suffering human flesh.  We should live in the spirit of an old prayer, ‘Let there be no exaggeration of the way I go today’.

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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.