Quotes from Amy Carmichael (1867 - 1951), Irish missionary in India. Account managed by @sarebeth
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If Jesus built a ship,
She would travel trim;
If Jesus roofed a barn,
No leaks would be left by Him;
If Jesus planted a garden,
He would make it like Paradise;
If Jesus did my day’s work,
It would delight His Father’s eyes.
But do not settle down into an attitude of “It will never be different.” It will be different if only, in earnest, we “follow on to know the Lord” (Hos. 6:3).
There is a tremendously uplifting power in joy. Perhaps that is why there is so much about it in the Bible.
O what a Love that patiently empowereth;
O what a Love that blesseth common days,
In earthly garden soweth seed that flowereth
In light and gladness; Lord, Thy love we praise!
God give us a pure passion of love that knows nothing of hesitation and grudging, and measuring, nothing of compromise!
We would never willingly disguise one fraction of the truth in our desire to win sympathy and true co-operation.
It may be you are not clear as to what is God's will for you. You are in doubt, you are honest, but a thousand questions perplex you. Will you go to God about it, and get the answer direct?
What if, by His great art
Perceiving what thou know’st not, He
Saith even now, “Yea, thou shalt be
O broken reed, a flute for Me,”
O broken life, take heart.
It is so much easier to pray about doing, and to talk to others about it, and to sing about it, than it is simply and honestly to do that very thing.
I thought the way upon the mountainside
Would lead to certain clearness; but my Guide,
Whose thought was otherwise,
Led to a cloud which blotted out the skies.
I feared to enter into that great cloud,
And fearing, cried aloud,
“O patient Guide, I fear;
Be not far from me now, with trouble near.”
Looking back, there is so much to grieve over. We can see nothing at all in ourselves to praise, but so much in our Savior. His patience has never failed. He has never given up hope for us. There is something very heartening in this.
Dear helpers-together, all of you, will you ask this for us, as your Christmas wish, and I will ask for it for you, as mine—that we may work while daylight lasts; for the night cometh when no man can work.
What if it seem impossible to face all that surrender may mean? Is there not provision for the impossible?
But all are not called to come! We know it. We do not forget it. But is it a fact so forgotten at home that a missionary need press it? What is forgotten surely is that the field is the world.
We know not what a day may bring forth, but if we are following our Leader, we know that we shall be led.