It's a rainy Thursday afternoon...and I'm sitting at Barnes & Noble.. pondering. I just cracked pen my new Elisabeth Elliot book that I just purchased and am stuck (already) in the introduction!!
Elisabeth's words have encouraged, convicted, and strengthened me with the help of the Holy Spirit!
She had a written a prayer (also on a rainy afternoon) at Wheaton College in 1947.. and it sounds just like the prayer I've been uttering to my Savior in 2008 at Barnes & Noble:
"Lord, give to me a quiet heart that does not ask to understand, but confident steps forward in the darkness guided by Thy hand."
This was my heart's cry and desire then. It is the same today. A willing acceptance of all that God assigns and a glad surrender of all that I am and have constitute the KEY to receiving the gift of a quiet heart. Whenever I have balked, the quietness goes. It is restored, and life immeasurably simplified, when I have trusted and obeyed. God loves us with an everlasting love. He is utterably merciful and kind, and sees to it that not a day passes without the OPPORTUNITY for new applications of the old truth of BECOMING (John 1:12-13) a child of God. This, to me, sums up the... [ Meaning of life ]
-Elisabeth Elliot
Magnolia, Massachusetts
October, 1994 <--- just 14 years ago!!
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