Thursday, December 16, 2021
Sunday, June 27, 2021
Jim Elliot~
(In a letter to his parents)
"I do not
wonder that you were saddened at the word of my going to South America. This is
nothing else than what the Lord Jesus warned us of when He told the disciples
that they must become so infatuated with the kingdom and following Him that all
other allegiances must become as though they were not. And he never excluded
the family tie. In fact, those loves which we regard as closest, He told us
must become as hate in comparison with our desires to uphold His cause. Grieve
not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the
will of God done gladly. Remember how the Psalmist described children? He said
that they were as an heritage from the Lord, and that every man should be happy
who had his quiver full of them. And what is a quiver full of but arrows? And
what are arrows for but to shoot? So, with the strong arms of prayer, draw the
bowstring back and let the arrows fly–all of them, straight at the Enemy’s
hosts.
‘Give of thy sons
to bear the message glorious, Give of thy wealth to speed them on their way,
Pour out thy soul for them in prayer victorious, And all thou spendest Jesus
will repay.’"
what a courageous belief... I pray always that God may use my daughter for His glory as she was the long wanted blessing in my life.. when time such as this comes in my daughter's life, may I remember Jim Elliot's words