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But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was it to love what God commands, in the words of the collect, and to desire what He promises? Did I want what I wanted, or did I want what He wanted, no matter what it might cost?

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We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others.

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We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.

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I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

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The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.

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Elisabeth Elliot

Elisabeth Elliot

Born: December 21, 1926
Died: June 15, 2015 (aged 88)
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