"Cause and effect are in God's hands. Is it not the part of faith simply to let them rest there? God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice."
"God is God. If He is God, He is worthy of my worship and my service. I will find rest nowhere but in His will, and that will is infinitely, immeasurably, unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what He is up to."
-Elisabeth Elliot
Through Gates of Splendor
this woman amazes me. i have read a couple of her books, and she is just so selflessly realistic. this book tells the story of her husband jim elliot, and how he was a missonary in south america, and the natives he was working with killed him. elisabeth herself went back to that very same country and began a life of ministry to the very same people group who murdered her husband. i mean, who does that? who is a big enough person to put self aside, not to mention a terribly broken heart, and do ministry like that? but she is forever pointing back to God, and drawing strength from Him.
she is my hero (or my she-ro :) ). i want to have the same knowledge of God's sovereignty, and the same depth of trust in His grace.
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