{"id":1862,"date":"2011-10-10T13:37:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T17:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2013-06-13T15:09:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T19:09:24","slug":"make-me-thy-fuel-amy-carmichael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1862","title":{"rendered":"Make Me Thy Fuel, Amy Carmichael"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Monday I try to post a new &#8220;Poem of the Week&#8221;\u009d on my office door and for some time I have thought I should post that poem here as well. So finally, I am doing so!<\/p>\n<p>This is a poem of Amy Carmichael&#8217;s which I first encountered through the writings of Elisabeth Elliot. I kept it taped to my dorm room wall in college, and its words still echo through my soul. It is a strong challenge but does not call us to look to ourselves to meet the challenge; rather, it points us to Christ.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Make Me Thy Fuel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From prayer that asks that I may be<br \/>\nSheltered from winds that beat on Thee,<br \/>\nFrom fearing when I should aspire,<br \/>\nFrom faltering when I should climb higher,<br \/>\nFrom silken self, O Captain, free<br \/>\nThy soldier who would follow Thee.<\/p>\n<p>From subtle love of softening things,<br \/>\nFrom easy choices, weakenings,<br \/>\nNot thus are spirits fortified,<br \/>\nNot this way went the Crucified,<br \/>\nFrom all that dims Thy Calvary,<br \/>\nO Lamb of God, deliver me.<\/p>\n<p>Give me the love that leads the way,<br \/>\nThe faith that nothing can dismay,<br \/>\nThe hope no disappointments tire,<br \/>\nThe passion that will burn like fire,<br \/>\nLet me not sink to be a clod:<br \/>\nMake me Thy fuel, Flame of God.<\/p>\n<p>-taken from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0875080804\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=0875080804\">Toward Jerusalem<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" uyfbfmxvodbpuohbrezr uyfbfmxvodbpuohbrezr uyfbfmxvodbpuohbrezr zvrpdofywqgfoqszkqur\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0875080804&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/em>, by Amy Carmichael<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Monday I try to post a new &#8220;Poem of the Week&#8221;\u009d on my office door and for some time I have thought I should post that poem here as well. So finally, I am doing so! This is a poem of Amy Carmichael&#8217;s which I first encountered through the writings of Elisabeth Elliot. I &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1862\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Make Me Thy Fuel, Amy Carmichael&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[261,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2626,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions\/2626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}