Many years ago, I had the privilege of having dinner with Elisabeth Elliot. She was clearly a soul who learned to trust God through the humanly impossible trials of life. She was anchored in the love of God, and you knew it by being in her presence. Spending an evening with her is a gift I won’t forget. 

Part of her legacy are the words of wisdom she left for all of us. I’m deeply inspired by her straightforward approach to walking in faith. At the end of the day, there’s no room in our heart and mind for worry, doubt, or fear. God is not a man, that he should lie; He doesn’t change his mind like humans do. Has he ever promised, without doing what he said? (Numbers 23:19) The answer to that question was, is, and eternally will be, no.

Whatever we’re facing at the dawn of another year, every one of our days can be given to God without hesitation. What He desires to do will always be best for us.

“He makes us wait. He keeps us on purpose in the dark. He makes us walk when we want to run, sit still when we want to walk, for He has things to do in our soul that we are not interested in.” —Elisabeth Elliot, Secure in the Everlasting Arms