Thursdays Before the Throne

From the August 24th entry in Amy Charmichael's "Edges of His Ways":


Ye have compassed this mountain long enough:

turn you northward.

Deut.2:3


"It would take too long to tell what this word has said to me. I will only say it spoke about a mountain of thought around which I have walked rather often. It is time to stop compassing that mountain... Is it not very dull to keep on compassing so dull a mountain? Hear the heartening word of the Lord, Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. 'Rise ye up, take your journey' (Deut.2:24), 'fight the good fight of faith,' "

Amy’s other thoughts:

Could it be a mountain of desire?

I know that is one I struggled with for a very long time-over & over again! She says, “Perhaps the Lord is saying to that one who are constantly praying about something personally desired, ‘Leave the matter to Me: you have prayed enough about it. You have compassed that mountain long enough.' ”

Could it be a mountain of rubble?

“Self, doubts, questions, grumblings,

little piles up ingratitudes-what are these but rubble?”


Ye have compassed this mountain long enough:

turn you northward.

Deut.2:3