One last Jim Elliot quote from “Shadow of the Almighty” by Elisabeth Elliot.
“As your life is in His hands, so are the days of your life. But don’t let the sands of time get into the eye of your vision to reach those who sit in darkness. They simply must hear.”
“Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism and love without weakness.”
Jim Elliot, Nov 24th, 1949. He was 22 years old at the time.
From the journals of Jim Elliot in Shadow of the Almighty by Elisabeth Elliot, p128.
The following quote from:
The Shadow of the Almighty, by Elisabeth Elliot, 1958.
Authentic Media edition, 2009, Milton Keynes, UK.
On daily devotions (p.24):
“None of it gets to be ‘old’ stuff, for it is Christ in print, the Living Word: We wouldn’t think of rising in the morning without a face-wash, but we often neglect that purgative cleansing of the Word of the Lord. It wakes us up to our responsibility.”
When God wants to drill a man
And thrill a man
And skill a man,
When God wants to mould a man
To play the noblest part
When He yearns with all His heart
To create so great
And bold a man
That all the world shall be amazed
Watch His methods
Watch His ways;
How He ruthlessly perfects
Whom He royally elects;
How He hammers him
And hurts him
And with mighty blows
Converts him
Into trial shapes of clay:
Which only God can understand;
While man’s tortured heart is crying
And he lifts beseeching hands
Yet God bends and never breaks
When man’s good He undertakes
How He uses whom He chooses
And with mighty power infuses him
With every act induces him
To try His splendour out
God knows what He’s about!
The Word is near you... 