Amy Carmichael once wrote: “When the Master of all the workmen called me into the field, I went for Him light and happy, the tools of His service to wield; Expectant of high position, as suited my lofty taste, when, lo, He set me weeding and watering down in the waste. Such puttering down in the hedges, a task so thankless and small. Yet I stifled my vain discomfort and wrought for the Lord of all. Till meeker grown, as nightly I sank to my hard-won rest, I cared but to hear in my dreaming, ‘This one has done his best.” “These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.” (I Chronicles 4:23) A missionary must be willing to occupy the smallest place.
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