Finding Hope in Loneliness With Amy CarmichaelSample

Led by His Gentleness

I was wakened early this morning with you on my heart. All this that is asked of you is so much too much (from the human point of view) that I cannot forget it. Thank God, He doesn’t either.

As I was praying, I was led to Gideon’s story, Judges 6:12–16. “The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valor”—the last thing he felt himself to be. Then the ques­tion that comes if we allow it: “If the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? Where be all His miracles?” (Why is one person allowed to do such serious harm to His work?) “And the Lord looked upon him, and said, "Go in this thy might . . . Surely I am with thee.'"

The “why?” and the “where?” are not answered. Perhaps they never will be answered on this side of eternity. But it was enough that He looked upon His son and was surely with him. So, I will trust that the greatest of all miracles will be wrought once more. The humanly impossible will become the divinely possible, to the greater praise of His glory. The exceeding greatness of His power to you who believe will be made manifest.

But you will need a very quiet mind, a restful mind; so, I will ask for this, as well as for strength of body, that you may go peacefully from one thing to the next, led by His gentleness.