No Other Way

Elizabeth Elliot Devotional

Title: There Is No Other Way

In order to get to a place called Laity Lodge in
Texas you have to drive into a riverbed. The road
takes you down a steep, rocky hill into a canyon
and straight into the water. There is a sign at
the water's edge which says, "Yes. You drive in
the river."

One who has made up his mind to go to the
uttermost with God will come to a place as
unexpected and perhaps looking as impossible to
travel as that riverbed looks. He may glance
around for an alternative route, but if he wants
what God promises His faithful ones, he must go
straight into the danger. There is no other way.

The written word is our direction. Trust it. Obey
it. Drive in the river and get to Laity Lodge.
Moses said to Israel, "I offer you the choice of
life or death, blessing or curse. Choose life and
then you and your descendants will live; love the
Lord your God, obey him, and hold fast to him:
that is life for you."

When you take the risk of obedience, you find
solid rock beneath you--and markers, evidence
that someone has traveled this route before. "The
Lord your God will cross over at your head... he
will be with you; he will not fail you or forsake
you. Do not be discouraged or afraid"
(Deuteronomy 30:19, 20; 31:3, 8, NEB). It's what
the old gospel song puts so simply:

"Trust and obey, for there's no other way
To be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey.
--John H. Sammis