If...
I ask to be delivered from trial
rather than for deliverance out of it,
to the praise of His glory;
if I forget that the way of the cross leads to the cross
and not to a bank of flowers;
if I regulate my life on these lines,
or even unconsciously my thinking,
so that I am surprised when the way is rough and think it strange,
though the word is,
"Think it not strange,"
"Count it all joy,"
then I know nothing of Calvary love.
That which I know not, teach Thou me, o Lord, my God.
Excerpt from the book "If" by Amy Carmichael missionary to India.
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