Suffering Is Never for Nothing by Elisabeth Elliot

Author:Elisabeth Elliot [Elliot, Elisabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion/Christian Life/General
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2019-01-31T16:00:00+00:00

And a verse which, to me, sums up just the things that I’ve been trying to say under this heading of acceptance is another seeming contradiction which I found in the 116th Psalm. The psalmist says, “What shall I render unto the Lord, for all his benefits toward me?” (v. 12 kjv). And I was reading this one day when I was so overwhelmed with gratitude for all the blessings of my life. That I was just sitting in a chair looking out over the ocean and I was looking at this magnificent view in a very comfortable room and just saying, “Lord, I don’t know how to thank You. How can I say thanks?” And I opened my Bible to this verse where the psalmist says, “What shall I render?” And then I saw that the next verse is, “I will take the cup of salvation” (v. 13 kjv). What shall I give You Lord? And the answer is, I will take the cup of salvation.

Now what is in God’s cup of salvation? Obviously, the psalmist in the Old Testament times was not thinking of salvation in the somewhat narrow terms that we sometimes do. Whatever is in the cup that God is offering to me, whether it be pain and sorrow and suffering and grief along with the many more joys, I’m willing to take it because I trust Him. Because I know that what God wants for me is the very best. I will receive this thing in His name.

I need pain sometimes because God has something bigger in mind. It is never for nothing. And so I say Lord, in Jesus’ name, by Your grace I accept it.

Whatever is in the cup that God is offering to me, whether it be pain and sorrow and suffering and grief along with the many more joys, I’m willing to take it because I trust Him.

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