A hero to a generation of people who grew up after World War II, Corrie
ten Boom left a legacy of godliness and wisdom. A victim of the Nazi occupation
of the Netherlands, she survived to tell her story of faith and dependence on
God during horrendous suffering.
“I have held many things in my hands,” Corrie once said, “and I have
lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that, I still
possess.”
Corrie was well acquainted with loss. She lost family, possessions, and
years of her life to hateful people. Yet she learned to concentrate on what
could be gained spiritually and emotionally by putting everything in the hands
of her heavenly Father.
What does that mean to us? What should we place in God’s hands for
safekeeping? According to the story of the rich young man in Mark 10,
everything. He held abundance in his hands, but when Jesus asked him to give it
up, he refused. He kept his possessions and he failed to follow Jesus—and as a result
he “went away sorrowful” (v.22).
Like Corrie ten Boom, we can find hope by putting everything in God’s
hands and then trusting Him for the outcome.
No life is more secure than a life surrendered to God. (RBC)
