There is nothing worth living for unless it is worth dying for.

My grandmother lived a life devoted to Jesus, and today her talks have been made available

in their original form.

So you too can be built up through the insights and mysteries God revealed to her throughout

her ministry.

Now without further ado, here is Elizabeth Elliott.

My third talk I've entitled Something to Offer God.

As I've said earlier, there are many forms of loneliness that I've never experienced.

But a friend of mine was divorced, and she wrote this, which she gave me permission

to put into my book, loneliness.

My joy is becoming less dependent upon my own immediate circumstances, and more attached

to what he is doing.

As limited as my understanding is now, I know that he is a God who never loses, a God who

has taken the ultimate humiliation and defeat and turned it inside out.

Somehow my ruined plans fit into his larger plans, and so in the moments when I am forced

to face my own loneliness, I find that I am not really alone at all.

It's always good to hear things said by more than one witness.

And I think of Paul's words to the Roman Christians who said, we can be full of joy here and

now, even in our trials and troubles.

These very things will give us patient endurance.

This in turn will develop a mature character, and a character of this sort produces a steady

hope, a hope that will never disappoint us.

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