3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
DAILY READING Luke 18:1-17; Genesis 29:31-30:43; Psalm 23
During World War II, it was a total risk for the Ten Boom family to obey God’s Word, in the face of Nazi opposition. However, being a devout Christian family Corrie ten Boom and her family made the costly choice to honor God’s Word despite the risk. As the Nazis killed thousands of Jews, they turned their home into a hiding place to harbor Jews from arrest. Corrie ten Boom became a leader in the movement to protect Jews, overseeing a network of “safe houses” in the country. Through these activities, it was estimated that 800 Jews’ lives were saved.
However on February 28, 1944, betrayed by a fellow Dutch citizen, the entire family was arrested and imprisoned. Miraculously though, the Jews hidden in their home were not found by the German soldiers despite thorough search, and later escaped to safety. Corrie and her sister Betsy were taken to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, a deadly women’s labor camp in Germany. Even there they still held worship services using a Bible Corrie had miraculously sneaked in, undetected. Though Betsy later died from illness, Corrie was released by divine intervention, due to a ‘clerical error’, where her name was wrongly placed among those to be freed, but before her captors could realize their mistake she was already gone. A week after her ‘wrong’ release, all the women in her age group were killed in the gas chambers. She started a worldwide ministry and later told her story in a book entitled The Hiding Place.
When you honor God, then you also honor His Word. It is a contradiction to say you honor God, and yet dishonor His Word. God is one with His Word. Anybody who genuinely encounters the Word will respond to God in humble service. Even when obedience may not be convenient, we ask God for the grace to do what is right. Obedience is proof that we love God. When it comes to taking decisions we must let God’s Word guide us. Let God’s Word always have the final say.
No matter what you think or what you feel, let what The Scriptures say always be final. Become someone who is guided by The Word of God in all you do. Let your anthem always be ‘Not my will but yours be done’ In your business, marriage, career, let God’s Word have priority. That is how you honor God through His Word. And when you honor God He promises He will in turn honor you. In 1 Samuel 2:30 God says ‘for them that honor Me, I will honor, and they that despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.’
Begin to honor God with your life, and you will find that He will in turn honor you and elevate you to become a wonder to your world. .
PRAYER: Lord, please help me to obey you always, even when it seems difficult, may Your will, only be done in my life .
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When you make God your priority, God automatically makes you priority in His own plan. – WORDBITE 222.
[ADAPTED FROM THE BOOK FAITH CLASSICS]