if

Just recently I enjoyed reading if: What do I know of Calvary Love? {Amy Carmichael}.
I just want to share a couple parts from the book that were particularly challenging to me:

"if there by any reserve in my giving to Him who so loved that He gave His Dearest for me;

if there be a secret "but" in my prayer, 

"Anything but that, Lord," 

the I know nothing of Calvary love."

"if something I am asked to do for another feels burdensome;

if, yielding to an inward unwillingness,

I avoid doing it,

the I know nothing of Calvary love."

"if the ultimate, the hardest, cannot be asked of me;

if my fellows hesitate to ask it and turn to someone else,

the I know nothing of Calvary love."

"if I covet any place on earth but the dust at the foot of the cross, 

then I know nothing of Calvary love."

I highly recommend this short book; it is 70 pages of challenging words to meditate upon.