Whispers of His Power – SEPTEMBER 4

Song of Sol. 6.4 (Rotherham):  Beautiful art thou, My fair one, majestic as bannered hosts.

Just now a tree on the very top of the hill is all tipped with the crimson of young leaves.  Through the field-glasses it is like an army with banners, and every single little crimson banner is held out and waves in the wind.

Beautiful art thou, My fair one, majestic as bannered hosts.  That is what our Lord calls us, thinking of us as so much better than we really are, for that is His loving custom.  If we truly love Him it is impossible to hear such words without wanting to rise to them.

Are we like an army with banners?  Or are we slouching along anyhow?  It would spoil a bannered host if a single banner-bearer trailed his banner in the dust, and marched out of step, and slacked.  Don’t let any one of us think, ‘It doesn’t matter about me’.  It does matter about you.

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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.