We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word, our necks that must bow under the yoke.
Interpretation
We should adhere to our principles rather than changing them for our convenience.
In this quote, Elisabeth Elliot emphasizes the importance of adhering to a set of values or truths, suggesting that instead of trying to manipulate these standards to fit our own situations, we should strive to align ourselves with them. It serves as a reminder that integrity and commitment to our beliefs require humility and the willingness to adapt ourselves rather than compromise those beliefs for personal gain or convenience.
In practice
In a speech about ethics in business, one might say, 'As Elisabeth Elliot wrote, we must quit bending the Word to suit our situation, reminding us to uphold our values in tough decisions.'
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.
Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.
All who ask receive, those who seek find, and to those who knock it shall be opened. Therefore, let us knock at the beautiful garden of Scripture. It is fragrant, sweet, and blooming with various sounds of spiritual and divinely inspired birds. They sing all around our ears, capture our hearts, comfort the mourners, pacify the angry, and fill us with everlasting joy.
frustration, complication and misery are available in abundance, but so is God's grace.
The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.
Most people are highly optimistic most of the time.
Who can estimate the real wealth that inheres in a fine character. . . . How base and mean money and huge estates look in comparison. All other things fade before it. Its touch is like magic to win friendship, influence, power. Can you afford to chill, to discourage, to crush out of your life this sweet, sensitive plant, which would flower in your nature and give added glory to your life, for the sake of a few dollars, a little questionable fame?
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