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.
Interpretation
When life becomes overwhelming, focus on taking the next small step rather than trying to tackle everything at once.
This quote emphasizes the importance of perseverance during challenging times. Elisabeth Elliot suggests that when faced with difficulties, it's not always necessary to have a roadmap for one's journey; instead, taking small, manageable actions can help us move forward. The reassurance that 'God will meet you there' provides comfort, indicating that divine support is available during these trying moments.
In practice
During a speech about overcoming adversity, one might quote Elisabeth Elliot to inspire others to take small steps.
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.
Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.
And life 's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
And thus ever by day and night, under the sun and under the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying by land and journeying by sea, coming and going so strangely, to meet and to act and react on one another, move all we restless travellers through the pilgrimage of life.
One of the best things about life—a reason not to go blindly after one goal and one goal only—is that sometimes it will take you to something that is way cooler than anything you would have consciously set out to do in the first place.
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
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