VICTORIOUS LIVING
One of the spiritual giants of the Twentieth Century was E. Stanley Jones, who spent much of his life as a missionary in India. Late in life Dr. Jones had a debilitating stroke which left him immobile and virtually speechless. But it did not crush his spirit. In one of his books he wrote: “I was talking to a bishop who had retired… When he was no longer in the limelight… he was frustrated and told me so.” “He wanted to know the secret of victorious living. I told him it was in… giving of the innermost self to Jesus. The difference was in the texture of the things that held him. When the outer strands were broken by retirement, the inner strands were not enough to hold him… Fortunately, with me, surrender to Jesus was the primary thing, and when the outer strands were cut by this stroke, my life didn’t shake.” E. Stanley Jones’ life didn’t shake because he had…
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