Journals of Jim Elliot Part 3, Junior Year at Wheaton College, 1948
This week we continue with the third installment in our series featuring excerpts from the Journals of Jim Elliot. Today we share his entry from February 17 and 18, 1948.
FEBRUARY 17 Exodus 2 . . . Moses means “drawn out,” and how his life illustrated it-drawn out of the Nile, drawn into the wilderness of Midian, out of Egypt, chosen of God to draw out His people. His whole life is one of constant moving away from old sites and pitching on to new ones. Even the firstfruits of his body he called by a name that would ever remind him of the character of his life—a sojourner. Father, choose me as you did Moses; draw me out and away from the entanglements of the Nile; strengthen my arm to carry the pilgrim’s staff.
27 FEBRUARY 18 Exodus 3 As the bush burned and was not consumed, so God enters a man and performs a miracle. God is an eternal burning (Isa. 33:14) and when He makes His abode with a man, He allows that man to become a witness to His power without being consumed by His person. John was a “burning and a shining light” (John 5:35). Make me one, Savior. Consume me with that Holy Spirit and fire that were promised for my witness and my purgation. How great is the “I AM.” No man can say as God does here, “I AM because I AM”; all men must say, “I am because another begot me.” Jehovah is the One whose existence and being are dependent on no other than His own Being.
**Excerpt originally found in The Journals of Jim Elliot pp. 26-27