Corrie Ten Boom and her family lived in the Netherlands,during the occupation by the German's ,the family chose to hide Jews from going to the concentration camps.Someone informed on them,the result was Corrie and Betsie were taken to Ravensbruck where Betsie died ,but Corrie survived she was released ,it turned out it was a clerical error.A week after she was released,all the women of Corrie's age group were sent to the gas chamber.It reminds me how we will not go until God permits, our times are in God's hands,and that has been delegated to the Son of God (Revelation 1 v 17). The question one may ask why did the Lord not permit Betsie to live?, because it was not His will for Betsie to live,we must all accept that, though it may be very painful,and we argue ,but they were so young,so gifted,you needed them, you loved them, remember these words,'His good,pleasing and perfect will.(Romans 12 v2) Corrie was spared, God had an important ministry to for her to fulfill,it was a world wide ministry,and she lived to the grand age of 91.God did not use an angel to rescue Corrie ,but a simple clerical error. He does not always rend the heavens,He uses what He our soverign God chooses to use,and His timing is perfect.
' My will is not my own till Thou hast made it Thine;
If it would reach the monarch's throne, it must its crown resign;
It only stands unbent, amid the clashing strife,
When on Thy bosom it has leant,and found in Thee its life.'
George Matheson
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