Faith

I am reading a book entitled "Tramp for the Lord" by Corrie ten Boom. If you are not familiar with her she was author of "The Hiding Place" which chronicled the story about her family assisting Jewish people and hiding them during the Holocaust. At which point she and her family were found and arrested and they then were put into concentration camps. She survives this ordeal and then is led by the Lord to travel all over the world and reach out to people with the gospel and love of Jesus. I have been inspired and amazed at this woman of God who is a prime example of obedience and faithfulness. She endured many hardships yet she rested in God and served Him each day even while enduring the torture and bleakness at the concentration camps. These experiences I believe helped her in her ministry to so many around the world because she carried a message of hope, a message that no matter where you are at God is with you. A message that even when death surronds you, you can seek God to give life. ( She thought she was being prepared to be killed in the gas chambers and during this wait she began to minsiter to a fellow prisoner and then many others began asking questions about Jesus and salvation.) So I say I am amazed at how God used this woman to serve Him and to reach out to others and to truly embody the verse "He must increase, I must decrease." I am humbled, convicted and moved by such a faithful and obedient servant of God who did not look at life or it's circumstances but looked to the creator of life. God help me each day to look to you and rest in you and not be wrapped up in this world and it's burdens but help use me in spite of these burdens and knowing that you stand alone beyond all human understanding and capacity.