Whispers of His Power – MAY 24

Prov. 19.23:  The fear of the Lord tendeth to life.

If the fear of the Lord (the reverence of the Lord) tends to life, then anything irreverent tends to death.  It is to death that the devil is continually seeking to lure us.

How can we prepare ourselves so that we may be usable to the utmost, either to speak for our Lord or to pray?  One certain way lies along the line of reverence.  A test question is:  ‘What is our attitude when we are shown something wrong in ourselves?’  If someone else has pointed it out, is our first reaction, ‘Who told him?  Do others know?  What do they think?’  If self-pity and self-justification are our response, or if we sit down in depression, then we have missed something.  The reverence of the Lord is not in us.

Calvary is not the tremendous thing that matters most to us.  Our ‘I’ has risen up.  We do not see our sins as the nails that pierced our Saviour’s hands and feet.  We do not feel ourselves to be the hammer driving in again those torturing nails.

Let us take off our shoes from off our feet in His burning presence that He may search and purge us, and prepare us for His service.

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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.