Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?
Interpretation
The quote suggests that our existence is either random chaos or part of a divine purpose.
Elisabeth Elliot emphasizes that every individual has a purpose, either as a product of chaos or as part of a thoughtful creation by God. This perspective invites reflection on trust in a higher power and the significance of our lives, urging us to believe that we are intentionally placed in our circumstances.
In practice
During a motivational speech, to inspire belief in one's purpose.
We are not asked to SEE," said Amy. "Why need we when we KNOW?" We know--not the answer to the inevitable Why, but the incontestable fact that it is for the best. "It is an irreparable loss, but is it faith at all if it is 'hard to trust' when things are entirely bewildering?
Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit's prayer.
What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the servants offer and had said to him instead, βlet me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be - let me be a woman'?
Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.
If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
Are you searching for your soul? _x000D_ Then come out of your own prison.
A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.
We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.
I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.
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