This article is from Issue 5, “Called To Obedience”
By Amy Carmichael
I have often noticed that if anyone, who has been asked to do a difficult thing for the sake of The Lord Jesus, does it and does it heartily, that one seems almost to gain a new power of joy and a wonderful new liberty. Sometimes a shy reserve that covered the soul like a thin sheet of ice melts, and there is freedom to share things and help others; sometimes a dullness that was there before just disapears. To see it do so is like watching a mist dissolve in sunlight.
In my reading this morning I came upon the reason for this happy fact.
“Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity;
therefore God, even Thy God, hath annointed Thee
with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows.”
(Psalm 45:8)
Our Lord Jesus did the will of His Father with delight, He hated that iniquity which so often tries to dominate us; selfishness, surrender to the easy, and so on. Therefore He was the gladdest of all the sons of men. The same law applies to His followers. Who among us can be counted on for hapiness? It is those who never take self into consideration at all.
Taken from Life On The Altar Publications
Issue 5 Summer 2022
Called To Obedience
LIFE ON THE ALTAR 