A Word of Everlasting Consolation with Amy Carmichael
Today I’ve been reading straight through a devotional by Amy Carmichael, who served as a missionary in South India from 1895 until her death in 1951. Carmichael suffered from chronic, hampering illness from 1931 until her death, but she continued to encourage others through counsel and writing.
Hear some of her words of wise encouragement today:
January 3
Heb. 6:18: Strong Consolation
2 Thess. 2:16: Everlasting consolation
These two familiar words ring in our hearts like bells. Way translates “strong consolation” all-prevailing encouragement. And he speaks of the hope of our heart as an anchor on which our soul rides safely: it cannot slip, it cannot break.
Everlasting consolation! What a word of joy that is! Some of us are tempted to wonder about the future. We look ahead, and imagine, and fear. For us there is something vital in this great thought of consolation that is not for today only, but for endless tomorrows.
Another word was written surely for any of us who are looking beyond the borders of today: Isaiah 26:3, 4.
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because he trusteth in Thee. Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.
Strong consolation.
Everlasting consolation.
Everlasting strength.
January 6
And she called the name of the Lord that spoke unto her, Thou God seest me. Thou God of Vision.
The well was called ‘The well of him that liveth and seeth me. The well of the Life of Vision.’ Genesis 16:13-14
Awed and heartened, Hagar called the Name of the Lord, Thou God seest me, Thou God of Vision.
The well nearby was named ‘The well of Him that liveth and seeth me, the well of the life of vision.’
Thank God for that well in the wilderness. If we are discouraged or tired or hurt today, one long drink from that well will give us new life, new courage, new patience to go on running the race set before us — even to the end.
From Whispers of His Power by Amy Carmichael.
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![In what do you place your confidence?
But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. Jeremiah 17:7
All-Wise God,
Forgive us for placing our confidence
or finding our security and significance
in any number of idols that are not you—
work, money, looks, family,
friends, food, drink,
health, ministry, etc.
Some of us waver between confidence and self-doubt.
Forgive us for our pride and our self-contempt,
for both spring from the same root—
a failure to trust in you alone,
an inability to see or believe
that you are trustworthy.
Indeed, you work in all things,
not some things,
every last detail of our lives,
not just a few unimportant ones,
for the good of those who love you,
to fulfill your wonderful and wise plan,
your redeeming purpose in our lives (See Romans 8:28).
Even this very minute,
even in the dark and tortuous roads of our journey,
you are working beauty and redemption
by your transforming grace.
Right now, we give our supreme confidence
and/or our self-doubt
in the following areas to you:
work: [name ways you need to trust the Lord]
Relationships: [name ways you need to trust the Lord]
Health: [name ways you need to trust the Lord]
Ministry: [name ways you need to trust the Lord]
Other: [name ways you need to trust the Lord]
In Jesus’s trustworthy name we pray. Amen.
Read Jeremiah 17:5-8; Romans 8:28-39.
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