Infinite Adaptability

I started reading "Through Gates of Splendor" by Elisabeth Elliot. I am STRUCK by the passion and obedience her late husband, Jim, and his fellow missionaries had. I keep stumbling across amazing quotes and words of wisdom from their journals, which I write in my own journal. Some of them are just too good to keep to myself (although I suppose anyone can check the book out for themselves, haha)

The chapter that I'm currently reading, focuses on the changes Jim and his friends made in their lives to go out into the mission field. They truly realized that it was all scubula.

"I have one desire now- to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my strength and energy into it." - Ed McCully

I want to be like that.

"I'm taking the Lord at His Word, and I'm trusting Him to prove His Word. It's kind of like putting all your eggs in one basekt, but we've already put our trust in Him for salvation, so why not do it as far as life is concerned? If there's nothing to this business of eternal life we might as well lose everything in one crack and throw our present life away with our life hereafter. But, if there is something to it, then everything else the Lord says must hold true likewise." - Ed McCully

I love that! We trust God with our salvation, with our LIVES... what he did can be trusted. So can what he says, in His Word. Why then is it so hard to trust him with the details and directions? I want to live with reckless abandon and reckless trust.