Elisabeth Elliot by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIO018000/REL108020/BIO000000
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2023-06-27T00:00:00+00:00

While she waited in Quito in late May 1959 for Ginny to arrive, Elliot worked on her never-ending correspondence. Though her Spanish had gotten rusty, she also accepted speaking invitations, giving talks to groups of young people, to the philosophy faculty at the university, and to missionaries at HCJB. Elliot sent her parents a copy of her talk, which gives insight into her changing understanding of missionary work.

It is clear throughout the entire N.T. that the life which is offered to us in the Lord Jesus is not limited to certain places or times. It is a daily, down-to-earth, walk—whether we walk dusty roads of Galilee, as did Jesus, or cement sidewalks, or muddy jungle trails. Jesus never told us that to serve Him meant only to preach, or to be a missionary, or to pray. He showed us what He meant when He Himself lived and walked with ordinary men, shared in their wedding feasts, sat down with them in the jumbled mob of the market place, cooked breakfast for some fishermen on a seashore—these things were also the “things which pleased the Father”—as well as His Sermon on the Mount, His healing of the sick, His preaching to sinners.

I have thought much about Paul’s word, “that the life also of Jesus might be manifest in my mortal flesh.” I live among a people whose entire culture pattern is the antithesis of anything I had ever known before. I can hardly speak their language at all as yet. What am I supposed to be doing? I am supposed to be manifesting to them the life of Jesus, even before I can speak His words to them.44

Shortly after this, she wrote in a family letter, “Tom’s statement, ‘we set about doing His will and He takes care of the metaphysics of the thing’ expresses my thought exactly.” In her teens and twenties, Elliot had sincerely and enthusiastically embraced the Holiness teaching of both the Keswick Convention and Prairie Bible Institute’s L. E. Maxwell. Now she wrote, “Keswick teaching was always ‘too deep for me,’ and not very practical. Maxwell, too. I find the words of the Lord Jesus, and Paul’s lists of instructions much simpler to understand.”45

Ginny and her family finally arrived, and the sisters spent a week together. Elliot was glad for the opportunity to see her sister and get to know her brother-in-law and nephews a bit, although Quito was always so busy she felt that she and Ginny never really got time alone for conversation. The chance to sit quietly after supper and talk, perhaps by a crackling fire, was, she said wistfully, “my favorite way to spend an evening.”46

As soon as the DeVrieses left, Elliot and Valerie started the multistage journey back to Tewæno. After checking with Rachel, she invited Marj Saint and Mardelle Senseney to come for a visit. By June 16 they were in Tewaeno. Rachel and Dayomæ were not there; the groups had passed each other on the trail. The Waorani, who continued their usual semisedentary migratory behavior, were largely back in the older clearing.

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