An Incomprehensible Kind of Love

"Don't measure God's mind by your own. It would be a poor love that depended not on itself, but on the feelings of the person loved. A crying baby turns away from its mother...but she does not put it away till it stops crying. She holds it closer. For my part, in the worst mood I am ever in, when I don't feel I love God at all, I just look up to His love. I say to Him, 'Look at me. See what state I am in. Help me!' Ah! you would wonder how that makes peace. And the love comes of itself; sometimes so strong, it nearly breaks my heart."  ~George Macdonald

"You did not choose Me but I chose you" ~John 15:16

"A battered reed He will not break off, and a smoldering wick He will not put out"  ~Matthew 12:20

"But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." ~Romans 5:8

Our Lord is...

“He is too wise to be mistaken, too good to be unkind.”

~Dying testimony of Rev. Basil Woodd, 1831

A More Daring Faith

"His thoughts said, 'I wish that the sea might be made into dry land and the waters divide - then all would understand that Thou art leading me.'

His Father said, 'That crossing of the sea was the first and the easier obedience.  The crossing of the river later on asked for a more daring faith.  The way did not open in Jordan till the feet of the priests were dipped in the water.  But it did open then.  Rivers turn to roads, mountains become valleys, when He who is named the Remover of Hindrances goeth before.  Then no one can forbid.  No power can bar the way.'

But the son still wondered what he should do if he did not hear the Voice directing him, till he came to understand that, as he waited, his Father would work and would so shape the events of common life that they would become indications of His will.  He was also shown that they would be in accord with some word of Scripture which would be laid upon his heart.  This Scripture in the light of these events, and these events in the light of that Scripture, would work together under the hand of his Father, and point in the same direction.  And as he followed step by step the way would open before him.  Only he was warned to be careful that his eye be single.  He must be like David's soldiers, who were not of double heart.'"

Joshua 3:15-16, Isaiah 40:4, Matthew 6:22, 1 Chronicles 12:33

~ Amy Carmichael (from "His Thoughts Said...His Father Said...")