Whispers of His Power – JULY 10

Ps. 7 Title:  Shiggaion (a song) of David, which he sang unto the Lord, concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite.

Ps. 7.1:  O Lord my God, in Thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.

Ps. 7.17:  I will praise the Lord according to His righteousness:  and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high.

Cush is mentioned in the title of Psalm 7, and we see that disagreeable person doing exactly as people sometimes do to us.  We see, too, what we should do when distressed by them.  David sang unto the Lord.  He told Him all about it and then he turned from it and sang those happy words at the end of the Psalm, I will praise the Lord according to His righteousness:  and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high.

If a Cush springs up among us, with his unkind and untrue accusations, let us try David’s way.  According to Matthew 5.23-24 the first thing to do is to go to Cush and try to get things straight.  If that fails, the right thing to do is not to discuss it with others, or to be miserable about it, brooding over it in a dreadful gloomy silence.  The right thing is to sing.

The wicked pleasure of hurting another is hateful, devilish.  Cush means Black.  The Lord make us white all through, like those of whom it is written in Revelation 3.4, They shall walk with Me in white:  for they are worthy.

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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.