Make Me Thy Fuel, Flame of God
“Conscious that the work of the mission needed to accurately reflect Christ to those who watch them, Amy Carmichael held the work to the highest standards… One of her early biographers subtitled his book, ‘The Story of a Lover and and Her Beloved.’ And those words hold the secret of that beautiful and uninterrupted life of Christian service—a life in which the only things that mattered were those that were eternal.”
― Dr. John Snyder, Week 9 of Behold Your God: Rethinking God Biblically
Amy Carmichael (1867–1951) was a faithful 20th-century missionary to India, serving, exemplifying, and pointing those around her to Jesus Christ. She founded the Dohnavur Fellowship, a Christian mission and orphanage which rescued hundreds of children in India.
Amy Carmichael wrote hundreds of devotional and worshipful poems in her lifetime, expressing love to Christ and the struggles and triumphs of a Christian’s life of service. The following is entitled “Make Me Thy Fuel.”
From prayer that asks that I may be
Sheltered from winds that beat on Thee,
From fearing when I should aspire,
From faltering when I should climb higher,
From silken self, O Captain, free
Thy soldier who would follow Thee.
From subtle love of softening things,
From easy choices, weakenings,
Not thus are spirits fortified,
Not this way went the Crucified;
From all that dims Thy Calvary,
O Lamb of God, deliver me.
Give me the love that leads the way,
The faith that nothing can dismay,
The hope no disappointments tire,
The passion that will burn like fire;
Let me not sink to be a clod;
Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God.