After graduation, Jim spent some time at home to do what he called “The Test of Time” like the apostle Paul went to Arabia for three years before he made public preaching. Jim spent his time reading, praying, helping around the house, preaching in the streets and in prison, in school. One of his many works was his journal which told you of his prayers, what he did that day and the prayer’s God answered for him. After he died, Elisabeth published some of his journals in 1978 named “the Journal of Jim Elliot.” This is where Jim’s famous quote came from, “I am no fool who gives what I cannot keep to gain that which I cannot lose.” His friend criticized him for not getting a job and just sitting around doing nothing, but he never let the criticism