Whispers of His Power – OCTOBER 13
2 Cor.4.1, 2: Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty.
They build the front just like St Mark’s,
Or like Westminster Abbey;
And then, as if to cheat the Lord,
They make the back parts shabby?
Are the backs of our houses as tidy as the fronts? Are the parts of our character and of our ways which no one can see as right as those which all can see? Are we true right through? The people who built in that deceitful way, making the back parts shabby, had not renounced the hidden things of dishonesty.
‘I have renounced all underhand dealings’ is Way’s version; and Weymouth gives a further thought: ‘We have renounced the secrecy which marks a feeling of shame.’
Isn’t it a comfort that we have a Bible prayer that says just what we want to say to God: Psalm 139.23-24. Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
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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.
