THE HIDING PLACE!

History of the Church throws up, from time to time, some amazing and daring people, who for their Christian convictions, stand apart from the crowd. However, when we ask them, they would say that, “They were being normal, and were doing what they should be doing.” One such wonderful Christian is Corrie ten Boom.

Today, 27 February, in 1944, Nazi soldiers arrest Corrie Ten Boom and her family in Harlaam, Holland, for harbouring Jews, and saving them from being arrested and deported to concentration camps, during the Second World War, . They are promptly sent to the concentration camp. Her father and a sister, sadly die in there, but Corrie will be released because of a clerical error. She goes on to become an international speaker for Christian faith, and the author of “The Hiding Place” and the subject of a movie by the same name. I read this book, in 1982.

The ten Boom family were members of the Dutch Reformed Church, which protested Nazi persecution of Jews as an injustice to fellow human beings and an affront to divine authority. I know some very fine people, from Holland, who belong to the Dutch Reformed Church.

May the LORD help us, in these last days, to stand up for our Christian principles, boldly and courageously, like Corrie ten Boom. We are living in dark times, world over. Therefore, let us make God our Hiding Place. May the LORD help us.