Whispers of His Power – SEPTEMBER 17

John 5.17:  But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.

Mark 16.20:  And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them.

Some imagine God our Father is eternally resting, ‘doing nothing’, as a child would express it.  When I was small I thought of Him as for ever sitting on a white throne with a blaze of light all round.  A circle of people dressed in white, eternally playing harps, were always sitting just on the edge of the blaze, for a hymn said that heaven was a place where ‘congregations ne’er break up and Sabbaths never end’.  It was such an awful prospect that I had no wish to go there.

Our Lord’s description of His Father was entirely different.  My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.  When later on His servants preached His word, our Lord worked with them even though He was not with them in the flesh.  

What a glorious life is ours!  Our Lord does not merely watch us work today, but He actually works with us.

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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.