The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask- Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us daily nearer to God. John Keble "He does not need to transplant us into a different field...He transforms the very things that were before our greatest hindrances, into the chiefest and most blessed means of our growth. No difficulties in your case can baffle Him...Put yourself absolutely into His hands, and let Him have His own way with you." Remembering that He is always preparing me for what He has prepared for me. He knows to place me where I may learn lessons that would be impossible for me to learn elsewhere. He does not displace or misplace.
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When His Will Hurts
My sister forwarded me this song and wow...I am sure many of us could say this song expresses a place we all have been before. It certainly does for me. To view the music video click her: Thy Will
I have been reading A Chance to Die by Elizabeth Elliot, an autobiography of Amy Carmichael. Amy Carmichael, known as one of the great historic missionaries and founder of a fellowship for girls rescued from temple prostitution. She spent fifty years without furlough. She was "Amma", mother. But that was not the way she had planned it. In her mind she was a missionary. Mothering was not what she had in mind when she answered God's call. And as for a home...well, she had renounced all such earthly comfort. She had given up all thought of having a husband or a home. Then after 5 to 6 years of being an evangelist in India, it happened. God broke her heart for some little girls who in India were considered to "tie the mother's feet". Amy began to see that she must allow her feet to be tied "for the sake of Him whose feet once were nailed". In light of this she wrote: If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, For that a little emptier My house on earth, ...