7/4/2023 0 Comments Passion and purityDuring those five years both experienced the same feelings that you may now have-loneliness. Jim took their word for it and committed himself to bachelorhood for as long as the will of God required.” Five years passed before Jim Elliot knew that it was God’s will that he and Elisabeth marry. There were some areas where women could not go. Older missionaries had told him that single men were needed to do jobs married ones could never do. Perhaps for life, perhaps only until he had firsthand experience in the place where he was to work as a jungle missionary. The rain was the other fact he explained to me as we sat on the grass by the Lagoon-that God was calling him to remain single. The sunlight, which turned my world into a radiance of color, was the knowledge of Jim Elliot’s love. 41 This Is Our God-We Have Waited for HimĪlso by Elisabeth Elliot: A Slow and Certain Light The Savage My Kinsman Love Has a Price Tag No Graven Image The Journals of Jim Elliot Through Gates of Splendor Shadow of the Almighty Let Me Be a Woman The Mark of a Man Discipline: The Glad Surrender Quest for Love
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