From Elisabeth Elliot (1926 – 2015) Part 2

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The process of shaping the child—shapes also the mother herself. Reverence for her sacred burden, calls her to all that is pure and good—that she may teach primarily by her own humble, daily example.

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The deepest lessons—come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.

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Sometimes God’s refusals—are His mercies.

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If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated—the Christian would no more reach maturity than would the child.

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You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.

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I am not a theologian or a scholar—but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all of us. In my own life, I think I can honestly say that out of the deepest pain—has come the strongest conviction of the presence of God and the love of God.

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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

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Our future may look fearfully intimidating—yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.

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You will never understand why God does what He does—but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.

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No one whose first concern is pleasure, can be a disciple of the Crucified One. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.

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Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future—I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now! The life of faith is lived one day at a time. It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow.

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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

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Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

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We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn—a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him—may then pour ourselves out for others.

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Faith is an act of will, a choice, based on the unbreakable Word of a God who cannot lie, and who showed us what love and obedience and sacrifice mean, in the person of Jesus Christ.

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This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself, is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in prayer, and to learn patience, gentleness, meekness—in short, to learn the depths of the love that Christ Himself has poured out on you.

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God is God. Because he is God—He is worthy of my trust and obedience.

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It is always possible to be thankful for what is given—rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.

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Faith’s most severe tests come not when we see nothing—but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.

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To love God—is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.

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