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)
