Suffering

The Elisabeth Elliot Podcast

The Elisabeth Elliot Foundation

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Once again, Elisabeth addresses a common theme in her life and ministry.
This recording is a result of our work digitizing over 600 cassette tapes of Elisabeth's talks. Each tape is decades old and the quality of the recordings varies quite a bit from tape to tape. As we preserve Elisabeth's legacy, we will share as much of her work as possible, even when technical issues affect the quality of the audio. Each talk is unique in content and tone. All are a blessing and encouragement.
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Music: John Hanson

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0:00.0	My talk is on suffering, and I will give you a very simple definition to begin with.
0:12.1	Suffering is having what you don't want or wanting what you don't have.
0:18.8	A poem by Edward Chilito,
0:21.6	If we have never sought, we seek thee now.
0:25.6	Thine eyes burn through the dark are only stars.
0:29.6	We must have sight of thorn pricks on thy brow.
0:34.6	We must have thee, O Jesus of the scars.
0:40.3	The heavens frighten us.
0:43.3	They are too calm. In all the universe we have no place.
0:48.3	Our wounds are hurting us.
0:51.3	Where is the balm? Lord Jesus, by thy scars we claim thy grace. The other gods were
1:01.6	strong, but thou wast weak. They rode, but thou didst stumble to a throne. But to our wounds only, God's wounds can speak.
1:16.6	And not a God has wounds, but thine alone.
1:21.6	There is no other religion that deals with suffering.
1:25.6	Christian religion is the only one that deals head on with suffering. Christian religion is the only one that deals
1:28.5	head-on with suffering. And I'm sometimes asked, why do you dwell so much on
1:37.1	suffering? Well, because the Bible does. I think it's 180 times that it's
1:43.8	mentioned in the New Testament alone. I don't know what I said yesterday. I think it's 180 times that it's mentioned in the New Testament alone.
1:46.0	I don't know what I said yesterday, I might be wrong about that, but it's way more than I dreamed until I started looking it up,
1:54.0	and I looked at my exhaustive concordance and was amazed at how many times suffering is mentioned.
2:00.0	Now let's think first of all about the sufferings of your children.
2:04.6	This definition that I've given you is all-encompassing.
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