To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.
ELISABETH ELLIOTWhen ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).
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Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one’s thoughts.
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When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).
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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
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Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.
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We have ample evidence that the Lord is able to guide. The promises cover every imaginable situation. All we need to do is to take the hand he stretches out.
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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
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It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.
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The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life, the greater peace.
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Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
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We can’t really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.
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God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.
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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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