Many Christians believe that suffering is a direct result of sin. They wrote about the dark night of the soul as if it were a more normal passage in a Christian’s life. Perhaps a more challenging question is one based on the Christian mystics. She recently filmed, on behalf of Ligonier Ministries, a new teaching series, “ Suffering is Not for Nothing.” In her 1977 graduation address at Wheaton College, Madeleine L’Engle ended with this quote from Jung: “There’s no coming to life without pain.” What do you think of that? Ask her to sum up what God has taught her and she says simply, “Trust me.”Įlisabeth Elliot is the author of several best-sellers, including Passion and Purity and Shadow of the Almighty, which recount her experiences when she and her husband Jim Elliot served as missionaries to the Quichua Indians of Ecuador. Hers is a Lord whom she has learned is nothing less than trustworthy. In her words, both written and spoken, Elisabeth Elliot exudes this same quiet confidence. Flannery O’Connor once responded to an interviewer’s question about why her short stories left such a bad taste in the mouth with, “Well, you weren’t supposed to eat them.” Her wry sense of confidence in herself and her craft was undoubtedly due to her utter confidence that God was in total control of her life and writing habit.
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