Here is another entry from Jim Elliot's journals-
"What He has shown me seems to be that the world is fading away. All that I have seen and heard, all that my heart has been set upon to know I have found as the Preacher said, "Behold, it is vanity" (Eccles. 12:8). We won second place at the tourney in Cleveland, and we took individual runner-up positions, too-but-what is that? Nothing abides. Behold, the Son of God comes! One flash of His burning eye will melt all our polished marble and burnished gold to nothing. One word from His righteous lips will speak destruction to the vast rebellion we call "the human race." One peal of His vengeful laughter will rock the libraries of our wise and bring them crashing to a rubble heap. The wise shall be taken in their own craftiness; mountains shall be brought low. What shall abide that day? Lo, "he that doeth the will of God abideth forever" (1 John 2:17). Church of God, awake to our Bridegroom! Think not to say in your heart, America, "we have upheld the common man; we have the godly for our heritage; we have respect for the religious." I say to you, God is able to raise up righteousness from your pavement stones. you have nothing but awful show before Him who comes. "Oh, that thou wouldst bow the heavens and come down!" (Pss. 144:5). Laodicea, when will you learn that fullness without Him is vacuum? Oh, the awful emptiness of a full life when Christ stands yet without."
