The writings of Amy Carmichael
In looking for the poem I had been thinking of to add to this post, I found three other writings by Amy Carmichael which were so convicting and motivating to me today:
I have been so inspired and challenged by the writings of Amy Carmichael ever since I was a young girl. If you have not read much from her, I highly recommend you get some of her books, or all of them! I'm hoping we can offer some of her books in our bookstore in the near future. I especially enjoy her daily devotional, Edges of His Ways, and her little book, If.
From subtle love of softening things,
From easy choices, weakenings,
(Not thus are spirits fortified;
Not this way went the Crucified;)
From all that dims Thy Calvary,
0 Lamb of God, deliver me.
Give me the love that leads the way,
The faith that nothing can dismay,
The hope no disappointments tire,
The passion that will burn like fire;
Let me not sink to be a clod:
Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God!
If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider "not spiritual work" I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is the interest and exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
If I ask to be delivered from trial rather than for deliverance out of it, to the praise of His glory; if I forget that the way of the Cross leads to the Cross and not to a bank of flowers; if I regulate my life on these lines, or even unconsciously my thinking, so that I am surprised when the way is rough and think it strange, "Think it not strange, Count it all joy," then I know nothing of Calvary love.
I have been so inspired and challenged by the writings of Amy Carmichael ever since I was a young girl. If you have not read much from her, I highly recommend you get some of her books, or all of them! I'm hoping we can offer some of her books in our bookstore in the near future. I especially enjoy her daily devotional, Edges of His Ways, and her little book, If.
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