"All"

Some time after I heard, and for the first time understood and believed, that we could be kept from falling, I was at a big meeting in Scotland where Dr Andrew Bonar was speaking. He was very old and could not speak very plainly or strongly. The hall was full, and I was near the back. I could not catch a single word he said, except this word "all". He read 2 Cor. 9. 8 and he put every bit of strength he had into it, so that the one word rang out--all--always--all--all.  I have forgotten thousands of great sermons but that "all" I have never forgotten, and it has helped me countless times. It helps me afresh today. "God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work"

All means all, not some; always means always, not sometimes. Lord, today help us to live upon this "all".

~Amy Carmichael, Edges of His Ways, January 16