Posted on 06/15/2015 4:00:16 PM PDT by xzins
Elisabeth Elliot, widow of martyred Jim Elliot and author of Through the Gates of Splendor, has died, according to the Gospel Coalition.
Born in 1926 to missionaries in Belgium, Elliot spent her life pursuing God into the deepest and darkest of jungles.
She married Jim Elliot, who was later martyred while trying to reach the Quichua Indians of Ecuador.
Elisabeth was known for her service and submitting to God's will, even when she didn't understand.
"I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done," she wrote in Passion and Purity.
Please lift the Elliot family up in prayer during this time.
Just as I thought...The End of The Spear. Quite a movie if you haven’t seen it. Describes the relation ship that developed between the tribesman involved in the killing of the missionaries and the son of one of the other men.
United with the Lord. RIP.
Beautifully said, too, isn’t it?
She was a gem.
RIP.
One of the greatest women of God of the last century, and my fav female author....she knew the Lord deeply and was able to communicate her knowledge of Him so well - love all of her books. A live that truly glorified God in all she did.
She became a personal friend when I wrote a small book on God’s purpose for marriage some 22 years ago which she recommended highly after we corresponded about it several times.
She’s had dementia for some time, so it’s wonderful she is freed from that and has heard, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.....”
I hadn’t heard about the dementia, but our elders living to greater ages has made that more common. Honor our Fathers and Mothers.
Thanks for your personal reflections.
May the Lord make her glorious in His kingdom.
In about 1956, in Readers Digest, I read about the missionaries being killed by the Auca. Their deaths and the subsequent conversion & testimonies of their killers, plus the courage and dedication of Rachael Saint and Elizabeth Elliot motivated a whole generation of missionaries. 23 years later my family & I headed to the mission field. The later writings of Elizabeth Elliot have a huge impact on the spiritual growth of millions.
“Moreover we know that to those who love God, who are called according to his plan, everything that happens fits into a pattern for good. God, in his foreknowledge, chose them to bear the family likeness of his Son, that he might be the eldest of a family of many brothers. He chose them long ago; when the time came he called them, he made them righteous in his sight, and then lifted them to the splendour of life as his own sons.” Romans 8:28-30 J.B. Phillips
Thank you for your faithfulness, BwanaNdege, and for sharing your story.
Thank God for people like the Elliots, the Saints and so many others and for having grown up in American in a time when they and Billy Grahams Crusades and Peter Marshall were mainstream news instead of the Kardashians, Jenner, Hillery, etc.
RIP to a wonderful woman of God.
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