This is a clip from the notebook of Missionary Jim Elliot, written just a bare 2 months before he was martyred by the Waodani as he shared the gospel with them in South America.
It has become one of the best known and truest bywords and fundamentals for Christian living that we know of today.
“He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose…”
Note that he ties it to Luke 16:9:
9 “And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when you fail, they may receive you into an everlasting home."
I love his next comment - musing over the priest who, reasoning that the 30 pieces of silver were “unfit” for the treasury, made sure he had all thirty, because they were fit for philanthropy - to bury strangers in! His conclusion about the coldness and without feeling and obdurate man’s heart is is right on target!
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