Whispers of His Power – JULY 14

Ps. 4.1:  Hear me when I call, O God of my righteous-ness:  Thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress;  have mercy upon me and hear my prayer.

A snail which appeared to be dead was fixed to a tablet in the British Museum and kept there for four years.  One day someone noticed that it had a new door epiphragm is the scientific name).  This was astonishing.  He took the snail off the tablet and put it into warm water and it revived and came out of its shell.  Next day it had a meal of cabbage and began to mend its somewhat broken shell.

No snail that ever was created would choose to be fixed on a tablet in the British Museum.  Some of us sometimes feel ‘fixed on a tablet’, when we are not able to do what we naturally wish to do.  The snail has a fine word for us.  There is just one way of peace for those who want to be good snails.  It is much easier to write of it than to do it, but (Phil. 4.13) Through Christ which strengtheneth me can make it possible.  Take Rotherham’s version of Psalm 4.1, In a strait place Thou hast made room for me, and till the day of ‘enlargement’ comes, be contented with the strait place – like that snail.

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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.