tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502171450450034535.post1041412130265006547..comments2023-10-28T07:04:25.925-04:00Comments on A Theology of Desire: Intensity of loveUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502171450450034535.post-37317036011774200062009-10-08T17:45:08.284-04:002009-10-08T17:45:08.284-04:00Ike you leave me speechless. Do you have a blog wh...Ike you leave me speechless. Do you have a blog where we can read more?Suzanne Marie DeWitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09724481265474654929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502171450450034535.post-53019360422173617412009-10-07T21:21:11.550-04:002009-10-07T21:21:11.550-04:00"I walked out to the hill just now. It is exa..."I walked out to the hill just now. It is exalting, delicious. To stand embraced by the shadows of a friendly tree with the wind tugging at your coat tail and the heavens hailing your heart -- to gaze and glory and give oneself again to God, what more could a man ask? Oh the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!"<br /><br />Jim Elliot, diary, 15 January 1951, quoted in HIS, April 1956, page 9.<br /><br />When you became a Christian, did you think you were giving anything up? Were you acting out of a sense of virtue or honor? Or were you running away from all that, toward Someone in whose eyes you saw everything you desire?Ikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09595879576794400791noreply@blogger.com