Once and for all let us begin to be His entirely, May we banish from our hearts and souls all that does not reflect Jesus. Let's ask Him for the grace to do this, so that He alone might rule in our hearts. Brother Lawrence
No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God. *Jesus
From A Chance to Die: biography on Amy Carmichael (more to come):
Is not joy better than much learning?
I have rightfully no other business each day but to do God's work as a servant, constantly regarding His pleasure. May I have grace to live above every human motive, simply with God and to God.
But there are the bight bits, too, times when a flash of Heaven's own sunshine lights up the darkness of the darkest mud hut, and one such moment is worth a lifetime's plod.
He goeth before.
She was ashamed to think that as a follower of a Savior who was "despised and rejected," she herself shrank from being merely misunderstood and misjudged. So this was what those stark Scripture passages meant: dead to self, alive to God--"dead to all one's natural earthly plans and hopes, dead to all voices, however dear, which would deafen our ear to His."
All that pleases is but for a moment, all that grieves is but for a moment, nothing is important but that which is eternal.
He has been so kind about other things that we cannot doubt but that He will care for this too.
