As I mentioned on Sunday, Ashley recently shared this quote with me about thankfulness. It’s from Elisabeth Elliot, who was one of the American missionaries to the Huaorani tribe in Ecuador in the 1950s that I mentioned in my sermon on the Sunday before last.

After her husband, Jim, and all four of the other men were speared to death by the people they were trying to reach with the gospel, Elisabeth was one of the two widows who persevered in the mission, eventually leading many of the Huaorani to faith in Christ, including some of the men who killed her husband.



The video I mentioned of Steve Saint chatting with Mincaye, who speared Steve’s father to death, can be found here: https://youtu.be/9dA2C4zPihk

During this Thanksgiving season, may we seek to make thankfulness our “habit of life” by focusing on what God has graciously given rather than on what He has not yet given, and remembering that, in Christ, we are now fellow heirs of the kingdom: the new earth to come.

I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify your name forever. For great is your steadfast love toward me; you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol. (Psalm 86:12-13)

Blessings in Christ,

Pastor Evan