Elisabeth Elliot:
God is intensely interested in forming Christ in our character.
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God is much more interested in making us holy than He is in getting a job done.
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Hear the words of one Jim Elliot who died at twenty-eight: “When it comes time to die, make sure that all you have to do is die.” The only way to make sure of that is to live every day as though it were your last.
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I know that the best fruit will be what is produced by the best-pruned branch. The strongest steel will be that which went through the hottest fire and the coldest water. The deepest knowledge of God’s presence will have been acquired in the deepest river or dungeon or lion’s den. The greatest joy will have come forth out of the greatest sorrow.
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Find a quiet place. Be quiet. Ask God to help you to look entirely away from the visible to the invisible. Look away from the transitory to the permanent. All influences, circumstances, and conditions (yes, all of them) are designed with the glory of infinite life in mind—in the Mind that knows it all from beginning to end.
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Corrie Ten Boom used to say, “God has no problems, only plans.”
[I love this- we always seem to be bombarded with all sorts of problems and issues. It's so great to be reminded that God has no problems!]
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Running aground is not the end of the world—sometimes it fits in very neatly with God’s running of the world. It certainly helps to make the world a bit less appealing to us, drawing our attention to a far better one.
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I was thanking God for things I would never have learned to thank Him for without the suffering itself. And thanksgiving, in the midst of darkness, clears a way for grace.
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