End of the Spear

Picture from www.endofthespear.com

Last night my family and I went to the movies together, to see, "The End of the Spear." This riveting movie is a powerful story about passion for the lost and forgiveness. If you are familiar with the Jim Elliot story then you know about the young missionary who went to Ecuador from Wheaton College with a passion to reach the natives in the Amazon Jungle. Shell Oil had abandoned its effort to drill for oil because of the violence of the tribes in the area, but this did not deter the passion of these young missionaries to bring the good news of the Gospel into the jungles of Ecuador.

The beauty of the story is the way it is told through the eyes of Nate Saint's son, Steve. Nate is the missionary pilot who made this project possible. After seeing the film I remembered a quote from Jim Elliot that goes like this.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep
to gain that which he cannot lose.
From Jim Elliot's Journal, written in his own hand 1949
(image from www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/faq/20.htm)

Certainly, Jim lived this truth in that he did not regard his own life too high a price to pay for the souls of those in the jungles of Ecuador, for whom Christ died.

Jesus put it this way in John 15:13,

Greater love hath no man than this,
that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Daily we are trading our lives for something. What are you trading yours for? It is my hope that we are making them count for eternity. Be a blessing today!