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Corrie ten Boom 1892-1983 This page shares a new item each week from Corrie's writings. I never met Corrie ten Boom, but have been moved and blessed by her life and writings, and that's why they're being shared with you. She was a precious saint and it will be wonderful to meet her in heaven and thank her in person. ---E.W. Selections on this page came from: Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook, Fleming H. Revell, a division of Baker Book House Company; from Corrie Ten Boom, Each New Day, Word Wide Publications; from Tramp For The Lord,Fleming H. Revell Company, and other misc. sources. God Loves You Whenever you come in contact with mentally retarded people, please tell them that God loves them. They can often enjoy God's love better than people who have problems because of intellectual doubt. "Has not God made the wisdom of this world look foolish? For it was after the world in its wisdom had failed to know God, that He in His Wisdom chose to save all who would believe by the 'simplemindedness' of the Gospel message." (1 Cor. 1:20 Phillips) Lord, give us the courage to speak the truth simply, so all can understand. Some will ridicule our lack of sophisticated thinking, so we will need your courage to remain simple. But we know that Your "foolishness" is wiser than the wisdom of men. Delays and Detours An East German border guard once detained me in his office for three hours. He questioned me thorouoghly about my work, but as time went by, I could feel him softening. I was impatient at the delay, knowing I had work to do in his country, but I used the time to try to bring him and his secretary to the Lord. Just before he passed me through, they both accepted books from me. As I left, he explained, "I am sorry to have delayed you, but what we have been doing here is more important than your visit to your friends." The Lord had used those three hours to bring His Good News to two people who walked in the darkness, and I had been impatient! "...I seek not mine own will, but the will of Him who sent me." (John 5:30 RSV) Even delays and detours come from You, Lord, and serve Your purpose, when we serve as a channel between You and people we meet. Keep us from impatience. Don't let us pass by people who need Your Word. My Sisters and Brothers in Christ Betsie's sleeping place beside me in prison was empty. She had just died. I motioned to a newly arrived Russian prisoner who was looking for a place to sleep, and she gratefully joined me. We were sharing the same pillow, and with our faces so close, I wanted to speak. But I did not know her language. "Jezus Christus?" I asked softly. "Oh!" she exclaimed. Quickly making the sign of the cross, she threw her arms around me. She who had been my sister for fifty two years had left me. A Russian woman now claimed my love. And there would be others, too, who would be my sisters and brothers in Christ all around the world. "And He said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting." (Luke 18:29 30) Lord, when we accepted You as our Saviour, You welcomed us into a worldwide family, filled with loving brothers and sisters. Thank You for this gift of fellowship. God is our Support Do you try to lead a godly life through your own efforts, and wonder why you so often fail? Can a broom stand on its own? No, it must be held up, or lean on something. So it is with us. We can no more stand on our own than a broom can. It is necessary to surrender to the only One who can keep us upright. "Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen." (Jude 25-26) By ourselves we are floored, Lord. Thank You that You are our support and guide. Surrender Oswald Smith told the following illustration about surrender. He took four books in his hand, then laid them down on the altar, one by one. "This is my money. This is my time. This is my house. This is my family. They are all the Lord's. "But I have reserved a room for my vacation -- that money I will keep for myself." He took back the first book. "Yes, I gave my time, but that time for my vacation is mine." He took back the second book. "My house is the Lord's. But my sister is ill and she has six naughty boys. I cannot invite them to my new house. The will make it dirty!" He took back the third book. "My family is the Lord's. My daughter wanted to become a missionary. That is not possible. She must help her Mother." He took back the fourth book. After I heard that story, I saw that in my life I had taken back that which I had first surrendered. I dedicated my life anew to the Lord. We must do that time and time again. (I experienced that surely the Lord gives vacations, but when we take them from His hand, and not as our right, they become a blessing to those we travel with and meet on vacation.) "You are not your own, you were bought with a price." (1 Cor. 6:19,20 RSV) Take my life, and let it be consecrated, Lord, to Thee. POWER A woodpecker tapped with his beak against the stem of a tree just as lightning struck the tree and destroyed it. He flew away and said, "I didn't know there was so much power in my beak!" When we bring the Gospel there is danger that we will think or say, "I have done a good job." Don't be a silly woodpecker. Know where your strength comes from. It is only the Holy Spirit who can make a message good and fruitful. It is not try, but trust. It is not do, but done. Our God has planned for us, great victory through His Son. "Who can utter the mighty doings of the Lord...? (Psalms 106:2RSV) Holy Spirit, make us jealous for God's honor. Faithfulness A missionary wrote me: "Sometimes adversity tempts me to discouragement in the face of seeming failure. But I take courage and press on anew, as I remember that God does not hold me responsible for success, but for faithfulness." Jesus said, "Well done, you faithful servant," not "Well done, you successful servant." "If any one serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there shall my servant be also; if any one serves me, the Father will honor him." (John 12:26 RSV) Father, teach us to yield. What You do not have at your disposal You cannot sanctify, just as the potter cannot form the clay if it is not totally in his hands. Stronger than the Deepest Darkness When I was a teenager, my father asked me to visit the women in prison in our town. I would not do it because I was so afraid of prisons! Now, since I have been in prison myself, I have no fear. I even like to speak with prisoners because I know how it feels to be behind a door that can only be opened from the outside. But I also know that with Jesus the worst can happen, the best remains, and His light is stronger than the deepest darkness. "Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body." (Heb. 13:3) Lord, thank You that You do not give us a spirit of fear but of power, of love, and a sound mind. Fuller Still A lady planned a house meeting, although her brother did not believe it would be successful. The next day she proudly told him her room had been filled with women. The next week she reported that her room had been fuller still, and the third week even fuller. "Impossible!" her brother said, "When a room is full, it cannot be fuller still." "Yes," she smiled, "but every week I took out more of my furniture!" You can be filled with the Holy Spirt, and be still more filled. Perhaps some furniture must be moved out of your heart. "...that Christ may be more and more at home in your hearts." (Eph. 3:17 LB) Lord, show me if You need more room in my heart for Your Holy Spirit. It is a joy to remove that which could stand in the way. Set Free On the day which I thought was my last day, the Dutch girl who stood beside me asked, "How do you know all this that you have told me about Jesus?" "I know it from the Bible," I answered. The girl accepted the Lord Jesus as we stood together than morning. I thought she was the last one I would bring to the Lord, but that morning I was set free, not killed. "...and, lo, I am with you always; even unto the end of the world. Amen." (Matt. 28:20) Lord, we do not know what this life has in store for us, but be it good or bad, we are willing to be used by You. Use us until that moment comes when we go from service good to service bestwhen You begin to use us in glory. Only Eighteen Inches Today is the day of salvation. Some people miss heaven by only eighteen inches the distance between their heads and their hearts. One of the devil's most successful wiles is "Wait awhile." But we need to listen to God. "For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." (Romans 10:10) Lord, if You are not yet in my heart, but only in my head, please come down to my heart. fill it with Your life, through Your grace. Thank You, Lord Jesus. To Prisoners "In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us." (Romans 8:37) In the concentration camp where I was imprisoned many years ago, sometimes bitterness and hatred tried to enter my heart when people were so cruel to my sister and me. Then I learned this prayer, a "thank you" for Romans 5:5. "Thank You, Lord Jesus, that You have brought into my heart the love of God through the Holy Spirit, who is given to me. Thank You, Father, that Your love in me is victorious over the bitterness in me and cruelty around me." After I prayed it, I experienced the miracle that there was no room for bitterness in my heart any more. Will you learn to pray that prayer too? If you are a child of God, you have a great task in your prison. You are a representative of the Lord Jesus, the King of kings (2 Cor. 5:20). He will use you to win others for Christ. You can't? I can't either, but Jesus can. The Bible says, "„mbe filled with the Spirit" (Eph. 5:18). If you give room in your life to the Holy Spirit, the He can work through you, making you the salt of the earth and a shining light in your prison. Heaven Think of stepping on shore and finding it heaven; taking hold of a hand and finding it God's; breathing new air and finding it celestial; feeling invigorated and finding it immortality; of passing through a tempest to a new and unknown ground; of waking up well and happy and finding it Home. "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him." (1 Cor. 2:9) Lord, thank You that You have given us, Your children, eternal life here and now, and that we know that unspeakable joy is awaiting us. God's Word Never Returns Void In heaven you will see how the Lord has used that testimony, that word of comfort you gave today. God's Word never returns void. When you enter the beautiful city, And the saved all around you appear, What joy when someone will tell you, "It was you who invited me here." "A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompense of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him." (Prov. 12:14) Lord, we like to see results from our labor, but it is not necessary that we do. We trust You to complete the work You are dong in and through us. What Death is Like to a Christian A man and his son went over a long, narrow bridge. It was over a broad river, and the boy said, "Daddy, I am afraid. Do you see all that water down there?" "Give me your hand, boy," the father said. The moment the boy felt his father's hand, he was not scared. In the evening they had to go back again, and this time it was pitch dark. "Now I am more afraid than this morning!" the boy cried. The father took the little fellow in his arms. Immediately the boy fell asleep, to awaken the next day in his own bed. That is what death is like for the Christiam. He falls asleep and wakes up at Home. Afraid of what? To feel the Spirit's glad release. To pass from pain to perfect peace, The strife and strain of life to cease, Afraid of that? Afraid of what? Afraid to see the Saviour's face, To hear His welcom and to trace, The glory gleams of wounds of grace, Afraid of that? "O DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING? O GRAVE, WHERE IS THY VICTORY?" (1 Cor. 15:55) God's Word Never Returns Void In heaven you will see how the Lord has used that testimony, that word of comfort you gave today. God's Word never returns void. When you enter the beautiful city, And the saved all around you appear, What joy when someone will tell you, "It was you who invited me here." "A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompense of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him." (Prov. 12:14) Lord, we like to see results from our labor, but it is not necessary that we do. We trust You to complete the work You are dong in and through us. Humility All of us have sinned and come short of the glory of God. No one can say, "I am good." The basis of trust is Jesus' finished work not what I have done but what He has done. Nothing sets a person so far out of the devil's reach as humility. "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways: then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." (2 Chron. 7:14) Lord, I am willing to humble myself. We Are One When Holland surrendered to Germany, Father and I walked in the street. We felt a great oneness with everybody around us. We were all together in the great suffering, humiliation, and defeat of our nation. Everybody talked with everybody else. I have never before or since experienced such oneness in that nation. It was a great blessing. We will be that way in the millennium, but the oneness will not be in misery but in our communication with the Lord. "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God." (Rev. 21:3) Lord Jesus, when we experience great closeness with our fellow men, that warmth and communication is only a foresite of what we have waiting in store for us. What a blessing to anticipate. Hallelujah! God Has a Room for Me I was at the end of my first week in America and practically at the end of my money. The clerk at the YMCA had told me I could not stay there another week. Where should she forward my mail? "I don't know yet. God has a room for me but He has not told me where yet." I could see by the look on her face that she was concerned about me. Then she handed me a piece of mail which she had overlooked. The letter was from a woman who heard me speak in New York. She was offering me the use of her son's room. I gave the amazed clerk my new address after thanking God for His care. "But my God shall supply all your need..." (Phil. 4:19) Thank You, Lord, that we may know that our need is never greater than the Helper. No Neutrality There is no neutrality on the front lines of the battle between light and darkness. Walk only in the light. When a Christian shuns fellowship with other christians, the devil smiles. When he stops reading the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devil shouts for joy. If thou but suffer God to guide thee, And hope in Him through all thy ways, He'll give thee strength, whate'er betide thee, And bear thee thro' the evil days. Who trusts in God's unchanging love Builds on the rock that naught can move. George Neumark "...We ought to obey God rather than men." (Acts 5:29) Forgive me, Lord, that I tried the detour of a compromise. Have Your own way, Lord. Hold over my being absolute sway. No Excepts If you lose yourself for Jesus' sake, you cannot hold out on anything. No "excepts," are accepted! I said, "Let me walk in the fields." He said, "No, walk in the town." I said, "There are no flowers there." He said, "No flowers, but a crown." George MacDonald "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." (Matt. 6:21) Lord Jesus, forgive my "excepts." I surrender anew and now totally. My mind and body may say I cannot, but with the help of the Holy Spirit, I can. Our Mistakes I once visited a weaver's school, where the students were making beautiful patterns. I asked, "When you make a mistake, must you cut it out and start from the beginning?" A student said, "No. Our teacher is such a great artist that when me make a mistake, he uses it to improve the beauty of the pattern." That is what the Lord does with our mistakes. He is the greatest artist but we must surrender. Surrender your blunders to the Lord. He can use them to make the pattern of your life more beautiful. Faith came singing into my room, And another guest took flight. Grief, anxiety, fear and gloom, Sped out into the night. I wondered that such peace could be, But Faith said gently, "Dont you see, That they can never live with me?" Elizabeth Cheney "...thy faith has made thee whole." (Matt. 9:22) Lord, we can be so depressed when we blunder. It is wonderful to know that our mistakes can be useful to You, because You are our Master Artist. From Head to Foot A prisoner told me, "I decided to follow Jesus, but politics, my car, power, and position came between me and God. This is judgement from God, that I am here." The shelf behind the door, Tear it down, throw it out, Don't use it anymore. For Jesus wants your dwelling, From the ceiling to the floor. He even wants that little shelf You keep behind the door. "And he left all, rose, and followed him." (Luke 5:28) Lord, in Your love You want me 100 percent. I humble myself. Take me, Lord, from head to foot. My Neighbor's Bible The greatest place to bring the Gospel is to your own family. But until the family sees what you are talking about, they will never hear your words. I am my neighbor's Bible, He reads me when we meet, Today he reads me in the house, Tomorrow on the street. He may be relative or friend, Or slight acquaintance be, He may not even know my name, Yet he is reading me. "...and you shall be witnesses unto me..." (Acts 1:8) Lord, make me a testimony to my family and my neighbors. Take my life as Your channel. Help me to live a life that glorifies You in everything. The Bible The Bible is a book which has been written in order that God's people may see God's way through life. It is an extremely practical book. Elijah had an attack of spiritual depression after his heroic effort on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18, 19). He felt sorry for himself. What he really needed was sleep and food. God gave him both. "And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." (Ga. 6:9) Lord, You know how tired I am. Will You give me a good night's rest and help me to discipline my diet? Show me if I have done my work in my own strendgth instead of working in the power of the Holy Spirit.

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