Whispers of His Power – JULY 19

Ps. 119.128;  I hate every false way.

Ps. 119.163:  I hate and abhor lying.

We must be alert to notice the beginnings of loose thinking about Truth.  Suppose a question is asked, ‘Did such and such a thing happen? and the one who is questioned is not sure but thinks it did, to reply ‘Yes’ is to tell a lie.  To say ‘I don’t know’ may show carelessness where care was expected, but it is truth, and truth is golden.

‘She gave to everybody an immediate sense of truth such as we have when a sum comes right.’  May that be a true description of each one of us.  But if anyone feels, ‘That cannot be said of me’, here is a word of hope.  In Luke 13.11-13 we read of the woman who had been crooked for eighteen years, but when the Lord laid His hands on her immediately she was made straight.  He who straightened that crooked body can straighten the crooked soul of anyone who wants to have it done.  Then that one will find a horror of every false way growing stronger every day, till he or she can honestly say, I hate every false way.  I hate and abhor lying;  but Thy law do I love.

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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.