the elation of love mingled with the pain of separation. fear of what may lie ahead combined with trust in God. During those five years both experienced the same feelings that you may now have-loneliness. Jim took their word for it and committed himself to bachelorhood for as long as the will of God required.” Five years passed before Jim Elliot knew that it was God’s will that he and Elisabeth marry. There were some areas where women could not go. Older missionaries had told him that single men were needed to do jobs married ones could never do. Perhaps for life, perhaps only until he had firsthand experience in the place where he was to work as a jungle missionary.
The rain was the other fact he explained to me as we sat on the grass by the Lagoon-that God was calling him to remain single. The sunlight, which turned my world into a radiance of color, was the knowledge of Jim Elliot’s love. Back cover.41 This Is Our God-We Have Waited for HimĪlso by Elisabeth Elliot: A Slow and Certain Light The Savage My Kinsman Love Has a Price Tag No Graven Image The Journals of Jim Elliot Through Gates of Splendor Shadow of the Almighty Let Me Be a Woman The Mark of a Man Discipline: The Glad Surrender Quest for Love Passion and Purity gives direction in such areas as: singleness or marriage putting God's desires ahead of personal desires what men look for in a woman virginity and chastity the man's and woman's role in relationships dating.
These revealing personal glimpses, combined with relevant biblical teaching, may help to remind you that only by putting your human passion and desire through his fire can God purify your love.
She teaches this often-painful, yet rewarding discipline by candidly tracing her love story with Jim Elliot to "serve as evidence that I've been there." Through letters, diary entries, and recollections, she shares the temptations, difficulties, victories, and sacrifices of two young people whose commitment to Christ takes priority over their love for each other. In Passion and Purity, she emphasizes the need to commit daily to Christ all matters of the heart and to wait upon him. How did you handle the impatience of wanting to be with the man you loved? What is our role as single women - waiting around? How shall I know if this woman is right for me? These and many more questions are asked of Elisabeth Elliot in response to her books and seminar appearances. Sex - Religious aspects - Christianity.ġ8 What Providence Has Gone and Done 82 -Ĥ1 This Is Our God-We Have Waited for Him 176.