Throwback Tuesday - Pain is Temporary - Martin Wiles

Pain is Temporary

“If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you’ll be at rest.”

What better person to pen these words than Corrie ten Boom since she was a survivor of World War II Nazi death camps. Her family helped many Jews escape Nazi Germany, but on February 28, 1944, they were all arrested for their crimes and shipped off to Scheveningen prison. 

Two of her family members—along with a nephew, were released immediately. One died 10 days later. Corrie and a remaining sister were shipped to another prison camp and then another where Corrie’s sister died on December 28, 1944. Before dying, she related to Corrie, “There is no pit so deep that He [God] is not deeper still.” Twelve days later, Corrie was released. Read more...

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