Wanting OUT of the Wilderness GTJP-63
The Elisabeth Elliot Podcast
The Elisabeth Elliot Foundation
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
We share the following Gateway to Joy radio programs:
- Loneliness as a Wilderness
- Especially When We Want Out
We also hear from two special guests:
- Friend Kathy Gilbert- talks about Elisabeth's silent years at the end of her life as Elisabeth dealt with memory issues. Elisabeth had special gifts for Kathy.
- Steve McCully (son of Ed McCully who died with Jim Elliot and three other missionaries in Operation Auca) says an important theme of Elisabeth's life was summarized in the words "Trust and Obey."
Visit www.ElisabethElliot.org for more lectures and talks, devotionals, videos, Gateway to Joy programs, and other resources.
Theme music: John Hanson.
Special thanks to Mike Dize and the Bible Broadcasting Network.
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| 0:00.0 | 1. WANTING OUT OF THE WILDERNESS |
| 0:02.0 | 2. WANTING OUT OF THE WILDERNESS |
| 0:04.0 | 2. WANTING OUT OF THE WILDERNESS |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to another look into the life and message of Elizabeth Alliet, who called us to live to a higher standard each day, not satisfied with just a little religion in life, as a shallow substitute for giving God our best. |
| 0:21.0 | As the series continues in the coming weeks, we'll hear from family friends and others who are influenced by Elizabeth's life and message. |
| 0:29.0 | Well, we're halfway through a series called The Path of Loneliness, and today it's part five and six, loneliness as a wilderness, and especially when we want out. |
| 0:45.0 | We'll be hearing from Elizabeth's friend Kathy Gilbert, and as we think about loneliness and suffering, we'll be thinking today about Elizabeth's silent years. |
| 0:56.0 | Stay with us, as her friend Kathy Gilbert tells us about that. |
| 1:01.0 | Also, today we welcome back Steve McColley, whose father Ed was one of the five missionaries killed in Operation Alka. |
| 1:09.0 | He talks about the theme of Elizabeth's life and about one of his strongest memories, that later on today. |
| 1:18.0 | Right now, it's part five of our series The Path of Loneliness. |
| 1:23.0 | You are loved with an everlasting love. That's what the Bible says, and underneath are the everlasting arms. |
| 1:30.0 | This is your friend Elizabeth Elliott, talking with you about loneliness as a wilderness. |
| 1:37.0 | I don't know about you, but I have certainly felt that loneliness can be a real wilderness, a place of desolation, isolation, |
| 1:49.0 | strangeness, a fearsome place, a place that most of us don't like to be. |
| 1:56.0 | In one of my earlier talks, I spoke about loneliness as a sudden tide that just pours over us. |
| 2:03.0 | Most of us have experienced that at some time in our lives. |
| 2:07.0 | Late one night, I was awakened by a phone call from a young woman whom I didn't know, and she told me a long story. |
| 2:15.0 | She said, have you got some time? And I said, yes, I actually had quite a bit of time then in the middle of the night. |
| 2:23.0 | And so she began telling me her story. She told about how she was very successful in her work, things had been going very well. |
| 2:32.0 | And she had just now been told that she had an illness, which was probably going to be a progressive one, which was incurable. |
| 2:43.0 | And she said, it just seems very strange that God would allow a thing like this to happen when everything had been going so well. |
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