Posted on 06/16/2015 5:51:40 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015) was a Christian author and speaker. She, having lived through great loss, taught on God’s grace in the midst of hardship, as well as teaching wives and mothers to fulfill the high calling of Titus 2.
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Her husband was martyred in 1956 while trying to teach the Indians of Ecuador about Christ.
She returned to that land to share Jesus with her husband's killers.
A picture of Jesus' grace and mercy, she now rests in His arms.
God personally took the role of suffering servant. If that did not show that God marks suffering with a meaning, nothing could.
Eternal rest grant unto Elisabeth Elliot, O Lord. Let Thy perpetual light shine upon her, and may she rest in peace.
That is the quote she used to open her daily 15 minute radio program. I was very fond of her voice; it was so warm and inviting. More than that, though, she spoke with great wisdom, something that is sorely lacking in the church today. As I sit and contemplate where she is now, I smile, knowing that she now knows "the everlasting arms" with nothing between, and she gets to hear, "Well done good and faithful servant."
I thought at that time that they were idiots. Time has shown how wrong I was.
Please Lord receive her with open arms into your house. We should all live as victoriously as she.
Piper’s thoughts on Elizabeth Elliot’s life & death...
http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/peaches-in-paradise
thanks for that link.
wonderful.
should get its own thread.
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