Make Me Thy Fuel--Friday's Final Things

Good Evening, Ladies,
I am sitting in a rocking chair in our family room, waiting for the girls group our church has.  We don't usually have it at our house, but this week we are.  Melissa is reading aloud from the Journals of Jim Elliot--a very good book (should we do a book review?)--and Mom is sewing.  I studied this poem awhile back in literature, and I have loved it since.  It is written by Amy Carmichael.  If you don't know much about her, I recommend you study about her life!  She is a beautiful picture of a Christian woman fulfilling God's purpose for her life.  I need say no more.

Make Me Thy Fuel

By Amy Carmichael

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 burn like fire,
Let me not be a clod;
Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God.

~Molly

P.S.  Did you notice the title of this post--Friday's Final Things?  This is like Monday's Meals and Wednesday's Words.  If I have little things to post, this will be the day.  Generally I would want to do a poem on Wednesday, but I just wanted to share this with you as a preface to the weekend.  Friday's Final Things probably won't be too consistent either.  We like to mix things up. ;)

Lessons from the Fire~Part 1

Hello Ladies,
I am super sorry for not posting!  I'll try to do better--especially with this series--over Christmas break.  Here you go! :)

The weekend of July 7-8, we Webers went camping. We have an R.V. as most of you know, and we love to take little weekend trips. This time we went to Greenbrier State Park, which is about 45 minutes away-thus really convenient. Greenbrier has a lake and several trails so we had fun spending time at the lake, and Melissa, Dad, and I also went on a 5 mile hike. It was a beautiful reminder of God's creative design as well as His goodness to us.

Late Sunday morning we headed home. We had only a gone a few miles at most when Dad spotted a car on fire. He immediately pulled the r.v. off to the side of the road while Megan grabbed one of our two fire extinguishers. Dad took it and raced across the road to help the two men trying to put out the fire. They were using water bottles in attempts to put it out, but it was really only feeding the fire, which sprang from the open hood. Dad aka Mr. Weber sprayed the fire vigorously, but since he could really only safely spray the top of the fire (in case the engine exploded), he succeeded very little. We ladies watched breathlessly.

Dad raced back across the street, after checking for cars(it was a busy highway), and called for our second fire extinguisher. Megan once again grabbed it, handed it to Melissa. Melissa was about to hand it to Mom who was now stepping out of the R.V. to call 911, when she remembered Mom's bad back and handed it to Dad instead, who raced back across the street with it.

This second extinguisher put out the rest of the fire to everyone's relief. Still Dad went and grabbed some gallons of extra water we had and poured it on the fired-singed area. I snapped some pictures with my phone, which I attempted to recover, but unfortunately was not able to do this in time for the posting of this article.  If demand calls for it, I will add it into a future post.

I have thought a lot about this incident these past months, and I drew some conclusions, which I wanted to share with you. I will do this in a series, posting one every few days or so. (It depends on when I can get it approved by the LOTL team.)


1. Although we often take this for granted, life is so fleeting. I quote from Jonathan Edwards' famous sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God". " "There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God." -- By the mere pleasure of God, I mean his sovereign pleasure, his arbitrary will, restrained by no obligation, hindered by no manner of difficulty, any more than if nothing else but God's mere will had in the least degree, or in any respect whatsoever, any hand in the preservation of wicked men one moment. -- The truth of this observation may appear by the following consideration. 1. There is no want of power in God to cast wicked men into hell at any moment..... 2. They deserve to be cast into hell..... 3. They are already under a sentence of condemnation to hell...... 4. They are now the objects of that very same anger and wrath of God, that is expressed in the torments of hell......" (all original to quote, including emphasis)

There is nothing holding us from eternity but God's upright hand. There is a song "Live Like You Were Dying"; we should and must do this each and every day. Note: I am not recommending the song to you. For our readers still under parental authority I would suggest asking your parents before listening to new music. Also, when you listen to a new song, ask yourself whether it is God-honoring AND God's best for you.

We must first give our lives in submission to God, and then live every day for Him. Only in this way will we have no regrets. If you haven't accepted Jesus into your heart, please do so today! If you don't understand what that means, or have questions, then please email us. Until you dedicate your all to Jesus, you are in danger of going to Hell on Judgement Day. Besides, you are living without the joy and peace Jesus offers abundantly. Thankfully, no one was hurt in the car fire we witnessed, but someone easily could have, or the fire might have caught onto the grass nearby and burnt the local homes. Praise the Lord everyone was okay, and let me not forget this!

~Molly :)