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Those of you who've read "Abjured" (now up on FF.n) will appreciate this excerpt from Each New Day by Corrie ten Boom* that I ran across last night:
Many times I have been guarded by divine power. Once when I was a prisoner, I was brought to a judge who asked me many questions. There was a possibility that I would be shot! After he had asked me many things, I said to him, "May I ask you something?"
"Go ahead," he said.
"Is there darkness in your life, or light?"
"Only darkness."
I told him the way of salvation. My sister, Betsie, was questioned by the same judge, and she, too, brought him the Gospel. She even asked him if he would allow her to pray with him. He told me later, "I will never in my life forget your sister's prayers." Finally the Lord touched his heart, and he became our friend. [...]
The judge in prison still had his job to do, and there came a day when he showed me papers that could mean not only my death sentence but also the death sentence of family and friends.
"Can you explain these papers?" he asked.
"No, I can't," I admitted.
Suddenly he took all those papers and threw them into the stove! When I saw the flames destroy those condemning papers, I knew I had been guarded by divine power and understood as never before Colossians 2:14:
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, [Jesus] took it out of the way, nailing it to the cross. [...]
Jesus has taken all of the evidence against us and nailed it to the cross for you and me. There are many dangerous papers in our lives, and we must all come before God on Judgment Day. Have we refused Jesus in this life? Then we will be lost. Have we received Jesus in this life? Then we have nothing to fear, for He destroyed the papers that were against us when He died on the cross for you and me. What a joy!
*If you don't know, Corrie ten Boom and her family were part of the Dutch Underground operation that sheltered Jews. The ten Booms were arrested in early 1944 and sent to a series of prison camps; Corrie lost her sister, her father, and a nephew in prison, and her brother contracted spinal tuberculosis. Corrie herself was released from Ravensbruck in December 1944 due to a "clerical error" just before all the women her age in the camp were executed.
Many times I have been guarded by divine power. Once when I was a prisoner, I was brought to a judge who asked me many questions. There was a possibility that I would be shot! After he had asked me many things, I said to him, "May I ask you something?"
"Go ahead," he said.
"Is there darkness in your life, or light?"
"Only darkness."
I told him the way of salvation. My sister, Betsie, was questioned by the same judge, and she, too, brought him the Gospel. She even asked him if he would allow her to pray with him. He told me later, "I will never in my life forget your sister's prayers." Finally the Lord touched his heart, and he became our friend. [...]
The judge in prison still had his job to do, and there came a day when he showed me papers that could mean not only my death sentence but also the death sentence of family and friends.
"Can you explain these papers?" he asked.
"No, I can't," I admitted.
Suddenly he took all those papers and threw them into the stove! When I saw the flames destroy those condemning papers, I knew I had been guarded by divine power and understood as never before Colossians 2:14:
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, [Jesus] took it out of the way, nailing it to the cross. [...]
Jesus has taken all of the evidence against us and nailed it to the cross for you and me. There are many dangerous papers in our lives, and we must all come before God on Judgment Day. Have we refused Jesus in this life? Then we will be lost. Have we received Jesus in this life? Then we have nothing to fear, for He destroyed the papers that were against us when He died on the cross for you and me. What a joy!
*If you don't know, Corrie ten Boom and her family were part of the Dutch Underground operation that sheltered Jews. The ten Booms were arrested in early 1944 and sent to a series of prison camps; Corrie lost her sister, her father, and a nephew in prison, and her brother contracted spinal tuberculosis. Corrie herself was released from Ravensbruck in December 1944 due to a "clerical error" just before all the women her age in the camp were executed.
