I remember well sitting in Good News Clubs and 5-Day Clubs as a child listening to the story of Amy Carmichael. This story and others of amazing Christians of the faith gave me a love for Christian missionary biographies.

Amy was the little girl who had brown eyes and prayed that they would be blue. God answered her prayer with a “no.”

Later on Amy realized that God had an amazing purpose in giving her brown eyes. Her brown eyes allowed her to disguise herself and rescue children in India from slavery in the temple.

Oh, how I love these true stories of great Christians of the past. God helped Amy Carmichael rescue 1,000 children. Yet, an accident left her completely bed-bound in later years. She did not let this stop her, but became closer to God and wrote amazing books through this experience.

One of her most famous works is “IF” which has taught me much in my daily walk. In this book, she speaks of Calvary love, Christ’s love. Here are a few brief excerpts:

“If I have not compassion on my fellow)servant even as my Lord had
pity on me, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

“If, in dealing with one who does not respond, I weary of the strain, and
slip from under the burden, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

“If I cannot catch “the sound of noise of rain”(1Kings 18:41 )long before the rain falls,
and, going to some hilltop of the spirit, as near to my God as I can,
have not faith to wait there with my face between my knees, though
six times or sixty times I am told “there is nothing,” till at last “there
arises a little cloud out of the sea,” then I know nothing of Calvary
love.”

“If my attitude be one of fear, not faith, about one who has disappointed
me; if I say, “Just what I expected,” if a fall occurs, then I know
nothing of Calvary love.”

She wanted to love as Christ loved. What an amazing example for our Wednesday Walk.