Readings: John 20:19-31
Quotes:
A poem by Amy Carmichael:
Hast thou no scar?
No hidden scar on foot, or side, or hand?I hear thee sung as mighty in the land,
I hear them hail thy bright ascendant star, Hast thou no scar?Hast thou no wound?
Yet, I was wounded by the archers, spent.
Leaned me against the tree to die, and rent
By ravening beasts that compassed me, I swooned:
Hast thou no wound?No wound? No scar?
Yet as the Master shall the servant be,
And pierced are the feet that follow Me;
But thine are whole. Can he have followed far
Who has no wound nor scar?
An old hymn from the 1700s variously attributed to different writers, titled “How Firm a Foundation”:
When through the deep waters I call thee to go,
The rivers of woe shall not thee overflow;
For I will be with thee, thy troubles to bless,
And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress.When through fiery trials thy pathways shall lie,
My grace, all sufficient, shall be thy supply;
The flame shall not hurt thee; I only design
Thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine.