For our table devotional reading, we dusted off, Jim Elliot’s, Shadow of the Almighty, a book that I read nearly 50 years ago! I’m amazed at how articulate this twentieth-century martyr was in his early twenties. I share this excerpt. Bob Hall
“Must we always comment on life? Can it not simply be lived in the reality of Christ’s terms of contact with the Father, with joy and peace, fear and love full to the fingertips in their turn, without incessant drawing of lessons and making of rules? I do not know. Only I know that my own life is full. It is time to die, for I have had all that a young man can have, at least all this young man can have. If there were no further issue from my training, it would be well. The training has been good, and to the glory of God. I am ready to meet Jesus. Failure means nothing now, only that it has taught me life. Success is meaningless, only that it gave me farther experience in the great gift of God, Life. And Life, I love thee. Not because thou art long, or because thou hast done great things for me, but simply because I have thee from God.”