Elisabeth Elliot, in her book...
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Elisabeth Elliot, in her book The Savage, My Kinsman, relates the massacre of her husband and other missionaries as they attempted to proclaim the message of salvation to the Auca Indians in the Amazon Basin. Such a fiery ordeal could easily have turned the hearts of those who remain away from Christ, making them wonder if it is all worth it or even if the message is true.
Instead Elisabeth Elliot prepared herself and later returned to the very spot where her husband had been martyred. She became an instrument through which the Gospel came to the very primitives responsible for her husband's death.
There is power and hope in knowing that our Lord works even through fiery ordeals, persecutions, personal setbacks and even martyrdom. In the circumstances of life which would overwhelm and destroy us, we, too, can entrust ourselves to a faithful creator even when we are experiencing and finding ourselves in the lion's den.
-- Reisen
Instead Elisabeth Elliot prepared herself and later returned to the very spot where her husband had been martyred. She became an instrument through which the Gospel came to the very primitives responsible for her husband's death.
There is power and hope in knowing that our Lord works even through fiery ordeals, persecutions, personal setbacks and even martyrdom. In the circumstances of life which would overwhelm and destroy us, we, too, can entrust ourselves to a faithful creator even when we are experiencing and finding ourselves in the lion's den.
-- Reisen
