selections from
If by Amy Carmichael
IF
I cannot catch "the sound of noise of rain" long before the rain
falls,
and,going to some hilltop of the
spirit,
as near to my God as I can.
have not faith to wait there with
my face between my knees.
though six times or sixty times
i am told "there is nothing."
till at last "there arises a little
cloud out of the sea."
then I know nothing of Calvary Love.
1Kings 18:41
If
the moment I am conscious of the
shadow of self crossing my
threshold.
I do not shut the door,
and in the power of Him who
works in us to will and to do,
keep that door shut,
then I know nothing of calvary love,
If
souls can suffer alongside,and I
hardly know it,
because the spirit of discernment is not in me,
then I know nothing of Calvary love.
IF
the love that "alone maketh light of
every heavy thing, and beareth
evenly every uneven thing"
is not my heart's desire
then I know nothing of Calvary love.