"He is no fool, to lose what he can not keep, to gain what he can not lose." Jim Elliot, Christian martyr and husband of Elisabeth Elliot.
I've been thinking about God's plan and purpose of course for my life, but also with 9/11 being today. Thinking about all the suffering and hurt that we experience in this life. No one knows this kind of pain more intimately than Elisabeth Eliot, wife of the Christian Martyr, Jim Elliot, who gave his life to share the gospel to a people in remote Ecuador. Putting her own pain aside, she remained in Ecuador to minister to the people who eventually came to believe in Jesus Christ.
The following is a song by Twila Paris, but with clips from the movie Through Gates of Splendor, which is an account of the Jim and Elisabeth Elliot's mission trip to Ecuador.
What an awesome testimony, the same sacrifice that Jim and Elisabeth gave, is that of Jesus. He too gave up His physical life, that we might have eternal life! God asks us to do the same, to give our lives away that others might live through our "death".
"He is no fool, to lose that which he can not keep, to gain that which he can not lose." In giving our lives God gives us the eternal life. Amen.
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