the two weeks of waiting

Kristin Mahaney & Brian Chesemore

“Though I knew my answer was surely going to be “Yes,” I decided to make him sweat for two weeks before I delivered the official answer!”

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He calleth His own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.” So His merciful and miraculous leading is individual—“Thou (singular) shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee.” The temptation is great to imitate or to expect the same manner of guidance which God has given another. “What is that to Thee; follow thou Me.” His Word abounds in examples of His separate leading of His sheep.

(from the journal of Elisabeth Elliot, quoted in Devotedly by Valorie Elliot Shepard)

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