Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Trust and Obey....

Elizabeth Eliot, a master of distilling truth wrote the following:

Title: How to Know God The order of the Christian's assignment is: hear, do, know. If we hear the commandments and obey them, the Father will make Himself known to us. It is no use trying to know Him without doing what He says. To listen to one word and go out and obey it is better than having the most exalted "religious experience," for it puts us in touch with God Himself--it is a willed response. "If you really love me you will keep the commandments I have given you." It is perilously easy to imagine that we love God because we like the idea of God, or because we feel drawn to Him. The only valid test of love is obedience. Take one thing commanded and start doing it. Take one thing forbidden and stop doing it. Then we are on the sure road to knowing God. There is no other. "You are my friends, if you do what I command you" (Jn 15:14 NEB). "The man who has received my commands and obeys them--he it is who loves me: and he who loves me will be loved by my Father; and I will love him and disclose myself to him" (Jn 14:21). There is the order: hear, do, know. _________

Hear, do, know. It's the faithful plodding, isn't it?

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Praying that you'll have a wonderful day, joyfully plodding!
Susan

*In the works: our ground beef batch cooking plan~ gluten free! Planning to post it later this afternoon or perhaps tomorrow, Lord willing. Stay tuned!

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