Calvary's Love

Amazing love, how can it be that You my king would die for me? I am astonished at the love of our LORD. It is above my understanding. The following excerpts are from Amy Carmichael's book entitled, "If":

"If I have not compasssion on my fellow-servant, even as my Lord had pity on me, then I know nothing of Calvary love."

 "If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contr

ast perhaps with what I think of as my strong points; If I adopt a superior attitude, forgetting "who made thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou hast not received?" then I know nothing of Calvary love."

"If I can easily discuss the shortcomings and the sins of any; If I can speak in a casual way even of a child's misdoings, then I know nothing of Calvary love."

"If I can enjoy a joke at the expense of another; If I can in any way slight another in conversation, or even in thought, then I know nothing of Calvary love"

"If I do not feel far more for the grieved Saviour than for my worried self when troublesome things occur, then I know nothing of Calvary love"

"If I cast up a confessed, repented, and forsaken sin against another, and allow my remembrance of that sin to color my thinking and feed my suspicions, then I know nothing of Calvary love."

"If I do not look with eyes of hope on all in whom there is even a faint beginning, as our Lord did, when, just after His disciples had wrangled about which of them should be accounted the greatest, He softened His rebuke with those heart-melting words, "Ye are they which have continued with Me in My temptations," then I know nothing of Cavalry love."

That which I know not, teach Thou me, O Lord, my God.