Posts tagged Elisabeth Elliot
Becoming A Woman Whose God is Enough
Becoming A Woman Whose God is Enough

As I look back on that time, I think it was Lesson One for me in the school of faith. That is, it was my first experience of having to bow down before that which I could not possibly explain. . . . 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. If God were God, if He were omnipotent, if He had cared, would this have happened? Is this that I face now the ratification of my calling, the reward of obedience? . . . I had desired God Himself and He had not only not given me what I asked for, He had snatched away what I had.

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Women's MinistryJanet Schneidersufficiency of God, Cynthia Heald, Elisabeth Elliot, God is Enough
A Life Inside Out: Finding the Goodness of God in It All
A Life Inside Out: Finding the Goodness of God in It All

You see, from an outside perspective, Elisabeth Elliot had so many reasons to give up, to curl up and to turn inward over the years. Her first love was martyred, her second was lost to cancer, and her third and final nursed her as her memory left, not to mention all the trials and struggles that come just from the living of life in a broken world. Time and again, she looked into the darkest and most difficult and she saw God and found Him to be faithful … and then she wrote it down so that we wouldn’t lose hope when it was our own turn in the dark places. 

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Women's MinistryEllie EwoldtElisabeth Elliot, presence of God, death, obedience, follow, trust