There is nothing worth living for unless it is worth dying for.

My grandmother lived a life devoted to Jesus, and today her talks have been made available in their original form.

So you too can be built up through the insights and mysteries God revealed to her

throughout her ministry. Now without further ado, here is Elizabeth Elliott.

Speaking of this book, some of you can see that it has just a very little text at the top, and then

the rest of the page is empty, and he used to say that the reason there's a huge blank on every

page is so that every one of us can write across it in large letters, guilty. Now, Amy Carmichael

was a woman of tremendous compassion, very great gifts, great love, but she was as straight as a die.

And she had set her face like a flint, and she would not allow anything or anybody to deflect her from that.

And she is speaking to herself as she writes this book, If. For example, if I hold on to choices of any kind, just because they are my choices, if I give any room to my private likes and dislikes, then I know nothing of Calvary Love. If I put my own happiness before the well-being of the work entrusted to me,

if though I have this ministry and have received much mercy, I faint,

then I know nothing of Calvary Love.

If I am soft to myself and slide comfortably into the vice of self-pity and self-sympathy,

if I do not by the grace of God practice fortitude, then I know what? Nothing of Calvary Love. It is a tough book. It is not one that you're going to want to

read for recreational reading, but I recommend it. If you only want to read one of Amy Carmichael's

books and she wrote 40 and 14 of them are still in print. I recommend that you start with if.

You may not want to go any further.

Jesus humbled himself and became obedient unto death.

And that is what you and I have to do.

We are not going to be given probably anything very heroic or dramatic or noticeable to do.

Very unlikely that many of us will be given anything like that.

But Paul says in Philippians 3,

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