There is NO need for faith where there is no consciousness
of an element of risk. Faith, to be worthy of the name,
must embrace doubt. In our going into Auca territory there
were risks aplenty, so far as we knew.
There was also the
ground of our faith, the Word of Him who is called the
“Pioneer and Perfecter of our faith.” Nothing less could
have brought us to this place. I know there are many who
take similar risks for the sake of adventure or scientific
study. I am not one of them. I am afraid the “moment of truth”
would elude me altogether if I were to seek it in high adventure. I
prefer to seek Him who said, “I am the Truth.“
The Savage My Kinsman Published by Regal Books 1961,1989 p.63
Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015)
