Amy Carmichael is such an inspiration to me. Her life writings and poems encourage me to pursue Christ with all of my heart and convict me of my lack of love for Him.
Amy was a young woman who fully loved her Lord. She went to the mission field at a young age and stayed there till she died never to return to her familiar home and family again.
She truly found her only Love in Christ alone. She never married but gave her life to her ministry that is still going strong today in India for young girls….
My Lord seems to be showing me lately that it is Him alone I need for all time. He is the only one I will ever need from now and into eternity. He is the one we are to be satisfied in and Him alone. He seems to be teaching my heart this lately. I do believe that He will continue to have beautiful things for my life, a beautiful plan He will unfold but I must be satisfied in His Unfailing, Unfaltering, Holy, Perfect Love and in that alone need nothing else.
Amy Carmichael was just such a woman. She loved her Lord. She had a beautiful relationship with Him. She knew Him deep within her heart. One of her poems I will write out here inspires me to live in the love she was so fulfilled in.
My hearts deepest prayer:
“Father of spirits, this my earnest plea
I bring again and yet again to Thee
Fulfill me now with Love that I may know
A daily inflow, daily overflow.
For love — for love my Lord was crucified
With cords of love He bound me to His side
Pour through me now; I yield myself to Thee,
Love, blessed Love, do as Thou wilt with me.”
All this morning I have been reading her poems and wow, how inspiring! One more I have to type out here I just love so much and it is so true to my heart today.
“Gather my thoughts, they fitful roam
Like Children bent on foolish wandering
Or vanity of fruitless wayfaring
O call them Home.
See them they drift like the wind-scattered foam
Like wild sea birds they hither thither fly
And some sink low and others soar to high
O call them Home
My silence speaketh to Thee, but I roam
With my poor silly thought I know not where
That undistracted I may go to prayer
O call them Home”
Taken from the book “Toward Jerusalem” By Amy Carmichael
