“God takes our sins – the past, present, and future, and dumps them in the sea and puts up a sign that says NO FISHING ALLOWED.” “You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.” “Don’t bother to give God instructions, just report for duty.” “Some knowledge is too heavy.you cannot bear it.your Father will carry it until you are able.” “You will find it is necessary to let things go, simply for the reason that they are too heavy.” “If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.” When he tells us to love our enemies, he gives along with the command, the love itself.” Give me your forgiveness.And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on his. Jesus Christ had died for this man was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him.Jesus, I cannot forgive him. “Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. "Love is larger than the walls which shut it in." “And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work he will give us to do. “Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.” We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. There are two things we can do when this happens. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. “Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. "You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have." The title refers to the secret place where the family hid countless Jewish people needing help in their home and is based on this scripture, “You are my hiding place and my shield I hope in your word” ( Psalm 119:114).
She authored a number of books and was most famously known for The Hiding Place, the incredible story of her life. God brought incredible beauty and healing through her difficult experiences, and her words still have great relevance and impact in our world today. She was miraculously released from prison just days after her sister had died there.
Corrie and her sister were sent to a notorious Nazi concentration camp. When their home was raided after an informant tipped off the Nazis of their activities, the entire family was imprisoned. The ten Boom family were Dutch Christians who helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust of WWII. Evidence still that God uses all we walk through in this world for greater purposes and good, more than we could possibly ever imagine. Her deep wisdom came with the cost of journeying through great pain in this life, yet many of us have gleaned amazing nuggets of truth from her experiences. Corrie ten Boom was one of the godliest, soul-rich individuals I’ve ever read words from. I think the rest of the world would agree. According to Jewish custom, celebrating the same day for both birth and death is the unique sign of a very special individual. At the age of 91, on that very same date in 1983, she also passed into Heaven’s gates. This past month on April 15th marked the birthday of the amazing woman, Corrie ten Boom. I did not know that he had put into my hands the secret that would open far darker rooms than this-places where there was not, on a human level, anything to love at all.Image courtesy: Ten Boom Museum Photo Album, Stock Footage by The Legacy of Corrie Ten Boom
I did not know, as I listened to Father's footsteps winding back down the stairs, that he had given me more than the key to this hard moment. Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way, Corrie, God can give us his perfect way." "God loves Karel-even more than you do-and if you ask Him, He will give you His love for this man, a love nothing can prevent, nothing destroy.
Or, Corrie, we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel. We can kill the love so that it stops hurting. "There are two things we can do when this happens. "Corrie," he began instead, "do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. And of course he did not say the false, idle words. The sweet cigar-smell came into the room with Father. For in some deep part of me I knew already that there would not-soon or ever-be anyone else. Afraid he would say, "There'll be someone else soon," and that forever afterward this untruth would lie between us. “.suddenly I was afraid of what Father would say.
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