I don't know if I noted it here or not, but one of the things I was most impacted by in Elisabeth Elliot's Passion and Purity was how they both so rigorously studied and applied scripture to their lives. It was the application of scriptural principles they'd gleaned out of rigorous study that was so new to me. Not that I didn't know that it was done or even that it was to be done--what seemed (and seems) so new is how they did it.

And noticing that along with reading Edwards' thoughts on the leading of the Spirit in Religious Affections and Friesen's book--I wonder if I'm coming upon something wonderful, or being led into something terrible.

I wonder if this new-to-me method of scriptural study and application is 1) the one the Elliots predominately used and 2) is the one outlined, defended, and encouraged in Friesen's book.

I am eager to read it. Major decisions await and I--I now feel--am ill-equipped to face them. I am too dangerously low in grace--both in prayer, and in the Word.

God, help me.

some (weary and hungry) thoughts.