Give Way to Truth

Elizabeth Elliot Devotional

Through a disagreement with my husband Lars
yesterday I suddenly recognized an instrument
used powerfully by the enemy to drive a wedge
between two people who love each other (and there
is nothing which fills the enemy with such glee
as destroying unity). It is reason. I had good
reasons for my argument and so did he. Reason
comes very close to being an idol to me at times,
and I am tempted to make sacrifices on its altar.


"Be faithful to Reason!" whispers the Destroyer.
"Do not let go!"

"Be faithful to Me," Christ says, "give up your
reasons, give way to Truth."

Reason is one of God's great gifts. We have
intelligence and the faculty of reason, to be
employed in the service of God and other people.
Faithfulness to Christ (who is Truth) does not
negate reason, but purifies it, raises it to a
higher level.

"Pure" reason, logical argument, stood between my
husband and me, as it stood between Job and his
friends, and Jesus and the Pharisees.

"Knowledge gives self-importance--it is love that
makes the building grow. A man may imagine that
he understands something, but still not
understand anything in the way he ought to!" (1
Cor 8:1,2 JB).