“Are there not evenings in life when our toys have no power to please or soothe? There is not any rest in them or any comfort. Then the One whom we love best takes the lamp and puts it so that the toys are in the shadow, but His face is in the light. And then we know that that is what we wanted all the time. And He makes His Face shine upon us and gives us peace. “
Frank L. Houghton, Amy Carmichael of Dohnavur (Fort Washington:Christian Literature Crusade, 1953) 184
Christina…I love these quotes! It is what I have been trying to tell my children and others on a regular basis. Nothing satisfied but Christ. Not politics, not toys, not people! Only Jesus Christ can fill the empty space in our hearts and His love gives us all we need! Thank you dear sister! Blessings on the fourth!
Thanks Barbara! So beautifully stated. Your comment also reminds me of something my grandmother used to say in her little Puerto Rican accent, “Only Jesus!” And how right she was!
Hope you all had a lovely fourth of July!
A beautiful quote – thank you! God bless you.
Thanks for visiting dear sister! God bless you, too! 🙂
The blessing to Israel in Numbers 6 was that the Lord’s face would shine upon them; likewise with all that are His.
“The Lord bless thee and keep thee; the Lord make His face to shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee; the Lord lift up His countenance (His face, panayv in Hebrew) upon thee and give thee peace.”
Except His face shine upon us, we are not blessed by His cross or kept (protected, guarded, treasured) by His sacrifice; except His face shine upon us, we know not the grace of God through the Person and Work of Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God; except His face be lifted up and glorious, as the Son of man must be lifted up upon that tree, grace and peace are not ours.
Thank you for posting this quote, dear sister.
Amen brother. Thank YOU for that comment which is, in and of itself, worth a million blessed sermons.
A beautiful truth! Thank you for sharing it! 🙂
I love A.C. Thanks for posting this.
I posted this just yesterday and since it is on the same subject by Amy Carmichael thought to share here too:
Thou hast not that, My child, but thou hast Me,
Am I not alone enough for thee?
I know it all, know how thy heart was set
Upon this joy which is not given yet.
And well I know through the wistful days
Thou walkest all the dear familiar ways,
As unregarded as a breath of air,
But there in love and longing always there.
I know it all; but from thy brier shall blow
A rose for others. If it were not so
I would have told thee. Come, then, say to Me
My Lord, my Love, I am content with Thee.
—Amy Carmichael From “Rose from Brier”
Thanks for sharing that here Deejay. Whenever I consider God’s dealings with Amy Carmichael, I always come back to this: It is not what we do for Christ that defines us but rather Christ himself. Her love and trust of God — even as her ministry was interrupted and her body was racked in pain, testifies that Christ was her all.