God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that challenges are used for personal growth and to develop a Christ-like character.
Elisabeth Elliot's quote highlights the idea that instead of shielding us from difficulties, God allows us to face them in order to shape us into better versions of ourselves, reflecting the virtues and spirit of Jesus. It suggests that trials and tribulations are essential to our spiritual journey and development.
In practice
In a sermon about the importance of faith, quoting this can reinforce the idea that struggles are part of God's plan.
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, “let 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.
Only by God?s grace have I made it to see today and only by God?s grace will I ever see tomorrow.
I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others - we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.
Prayer is the hand of faith on the door knob of your heart, inviting Jesus to enter.
Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best—better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than His. We can grow in faith only if we are willing to wait patiently for God's purposes and patterns to unfold in our lives, on His timetable.
Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference
You know, it's one thing to say you believe. It's another thing to have your faith tested severely and come out on the other side of it still believing God.
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