HIS BURDEN NOT MINE
Amy Carmichael tells how she wearied of fighting for the temple girls of India. The opposition to her work was so strong, and the forces that bound those girls were so evil that she wondered if she could carry that sense of responsibility any longer: “At last a day came when the burden grew too heavy for me; and then it was as though the tamarind trees about the house were not tamarind, but olive, and under one of these trees our Lord Jesus knelt alone. And I knew that this was his burden, not mine. It was he who was asking me to share it with him, not I who was asking him to share it with me. After that there was only one thing to do; who that saw him kneeling there could turn away and forget? Who could have done anything but go into the garden and kneel down beside him under the olive trees?” From Preaching…
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