Time to Trust Him

Trust is not a passive state of mind.  It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelm us.
Jerry Bridges

O Blessed Lord, That Will Not Let Me Go

"These have not been days of barrenness.  But they are utterly inexpressible.  God has taken me apart, wholly unto himself.  He has let me see his face.  No word can be written of it.  I stand silent, and wondering.  O blessed Lord, 'that will not let me go, I rest my weary soul in Thee.' ... keep him thus, too, Lord Jesus."  
Elisabeth Howard

A Worthy , Glorious Communion

You are his particular treasure, Betty, something he paid for at a terrific cost to his own person. . . . He is bound to display you to principalities and powers as a trophy of his searching. . . . Meanwhile he keeps you for himself, hidden away, forming you in secret ways that you don’t understand. Much the same as I keep your letters . . . so he keeps the pious for himself.   

Jim Elliot

My Dear Mom in love's name is Betty, too.
Jim called his love, "Betty", though we know her best as Elisabeth Elliot.

This picture is a beautiful picture of a precious longing fulfilled after Mark's parents waited to be wed, covenanting their hearts and lives together with God on their wedding day.
God chose this beautiful picture, marriage, to display His love for His Bride, the Church, to express His choosing, His sacrifice, His glory.
I love this quote!  Everything about it draws me into Him, His love and keeping, sustaining, securing relationship!
This is a promise fulfilled...worthy and rewarding: communion with the One who chose me for His own.

Photo: 06-10-50 Wedding Day

Godly Devotion

What is godly devotion?  
It is the dying of self in order for the authority of a Person (God) to be followed and obeyed.  Whatever (and whomever) God has called you to, be devoted first and foremost to him, and he will reveal himself to you while you seek and wait on him.  

Valerie Elliot Shepherd, Desiring God article quote
They Laid Love on the Altar: My Mother's Letters to Jim Elliot

Let Us Be Brought to Thee

O Lord, by all thy dealing with us, whether of joy or pain, of light or darkness, let us be brought to thee.  Let us value no treatment of thy grace simply because it makes us happy or because it makes us sad, because it gives us or denies us what we want; but may all that thou sendest us bring us to thee, that, knowing thy perfectness, we may be sure in every disappointment that thou art still loving us, and in every darkness that thou art still enlightening us, and in every enforced idleness that thou art still using us; yea, in every death that thou art still giving us life, as in his death thou didst give life to thy Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ.  Amen. 

Phillips Brooks

"... Every event of every day is a chance to take a step toward God."  

Elisabeth Elliot, God's Guidance: A Slow and Certain Light