What are the motifs in Shadow of the Almighty by Elisabeth Elliot?

Like the other interlocking themes, this one works hand-in-hand with trusting God, and when Jim Elliot keeps God first, his faith is active and growing. His journals show that putting God first is not always the easy thing, but in the long run it is the most rewarding thing. For the benefits of putting God first are eternal rather than temporal. The text holds many examples of Jim putting God's ways above his own ways.