Secure in the Everlasting Arms...

Thank the Lord for Elisabeth Elliot.

This morning I had a nice breakfast with my mother...and we were able to read a little bit together from Mrs. Elliot's book Secure in the Everlasting Arms...

beautifully written are just some of the trials and triumphs that Mrs. Elliot has experienced.

This morning she shared with us the essential duty of acting. Not so much Hollywood's style of acting- but the outpouring of obedience with action. Elisabeth writes,

"People who have themselves experienced both grief and fear know how alike those two things are. They know the restlessness and loss of appetite, the inability to concentrate, the inner silent wail that cannot be muffled, the feeling of being in a great lonely wilderness. Grief and fear are equally disabling, distracting and destructive. One may cry out in prayer and hear no answer. The heavens are brass. One may search Scripture in vain for some word of release and hope. There are many such words, but how frequently they seem only to mock us, and a voice whispers: 'That's not meant for you. You're taking it out of context!' and no comforting word seems to reach us. Faith, we know perfectly well, is what we need.

....At such a time I have been wonderfully calmed and strengthened by doing some simple duty. Nothing valiant or meritorious or spiritual at all- just something that needed to be done, like a bed to be freshly made or a kitchen floor to be scrubbed, one of those things that will never be noticed if you do it but will most certainly be noticed if you don't! Sometimes it takes everything you have to tackle the job, but it is surprising how strength comes. "

What an encouragement to continue on...EE knows more than anyone- day by day...the routine of life- living in joyful obedience! Hebrews 10:21-25 proclaims "and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with a pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near."


Thankful for the encouraging people in my life- hope you are encouraged today to 'do' when everything seems 'undone.'