Today we're thinking again about diligence and a firm foundation.

And welcome to another look into the life and message of Elizabeth Elliot.

She called us to a higher standard. and and message. A welcome. Thanks for joining us today.

Well, we're wrapping up our short series on the subject of diligence today.

We'll be hearing from one of Elizabeth's brothers

Tom Howard as he talks about laughter, composure and accents. Elizabeth loved hymns and today we look at two of the great hymns of the faith, how firm a foundation,

and crown him with many crowns.

That coming a little bit later. But first think about your work done for God.

Now, work that's godly work done for Him. Does that include digging a trench and then filling it up again?

Recognizing God's control over our lives and over this world.

Also, looking at Mary and Martha, you identify more with which one of those two biblical

ladies. Think about that with us today. Here's part four of diligence being employed by Christ.

You are loved with an everlasting love.

That's what the Bible says

and underneath are the everlasting arms. This is your friend Elizabeth

Elliot talking with you one more time on the subject of diligence. We were talking yesterday about that amazing man, Walter Chisick, who was put into a Russian concentration

camp, a labor camp, and had to work in bitter cold with very little food, very little clothing.

And he saw this as work actually done for God, even when he was being asked to dig a trench

and then fill it up again.

Or break stones and carry them up a hill and carry them back down again.

Stupid, meaningless work, almost satanically designed to break a man's spirit.

And Walter Chizik came out of that prison camp

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