Monday, July 20, 2009

Elisabeth Elliot Continued…

Her Mama taught her right: "No, you don't chase boys. You keep them at arm's length."

And you know, it works!

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Jim Elliot’s Epilog

Jim Elliot’s epilog in the words of his wife:

… I never dreamed of going there, and I couldn’t imagine any way in which it could possibly work out for a woman with a baby to go in and live where five men had been killed. But it was obviously the providence of God that happened to put me in a place where I would not normally have been.

Two Qichua Indians—a very friendly tribe—appeared one day at a missionary’s home where I was visiting and said, “We’ve got two Auca women at our house. Do you want to come and see them?”

I had to make up my mind very fast because they said, “We left home when the sun was over here and the sun’s up here now and we’ve got to be home when the sun’s over here. If you come, you come with us now.”

So that’s the way it happened. I just set off down the trail with them on a six-hour walk and met two Auca women when I got there. Nobody could understand a word they said. We didn’t know why they had come; we didn’t know what in the world to do with them—but that’s a long story. They came and lived with me for almost a year.

During that year, I was able to learn enough of their language to know that they were telling me, “When that palm fruit gets ripe, we’re going home. And we want you to come with us.”
So I said, “Will your people kill me as they killed my husband?” They just laughed, put their arms around me, and said, “They’re not going to kill you. You’re our mother, you’re our friend.”
… I went to live with them for two years, which opened the door for many other people to work with the Aucas. Many of them became Christians; in fact, all five of the Aucas who did the killing became Christians. (Elisabeth Elliot, Woman on A Mission, Touchstone, January/February, 2001)

Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer.... be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death” (Revelation 2:10-11).

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

He is No Fool


Jim Elliot was a young man compelled to take the gospel to those who had never heard. His last opportunity in the jungles was with the Auca Indians. His ministry came to an end on January 8, 1956; his mutilated body was later found floating in the Ewenguno River. A verse from his journals expresses the essence of his conviction:

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”

Sunday, July 12, 2009

He Shall Teach You All Things

Our Lord confided with His own that last night together:

“But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance , whatsoever I have said unto you” (John 14:26).
The same applies today regarding the Comforter; the Holy Spirit “shall teach us all things.” And how does He do this? It appears by bringing to our remembrance words of the Word i.e., the words of our Lord.

But how can this be possible unless we have likewise burned His words into our minds as those who reclined at table with Him that last night. Or like the two on the Emmaus road:

“Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures” (Luke 24:32)?