Jim Elliot's New Year Prayer

I pray that the Lord might crown this year with His
goodness and in the coming one give you a
hallowed dare-devil spirit in lifting the biting sword
of Truth, consuming you with a passion that is
called by the cultured citizen of
Christendom 'fanaticism', but known to God as that
saintly madness that led His Son through bloody
sweat and hot tears to agony on a rude Cross---
and Glory!

Jim Elliot