Corrie Ten Boom was a prisoner in a German concentration
camp during WWII. Years later, while speaking in a church in Munich, she
spotted in the congregation a former SS soldier who stood guard at the shower
room door at Ravensbruck. When the church was dismissed, the former Nazi guard came
up to her and said, “How grateful I am for your message, Fraulein. To think
that Jesus has washed my sins away!” He reached out to shake her hand.
Corrie kept her hand by her side as vengeful
thoughts boiled within her. Here she stood, face to face with the evil soldier who
had been so cruel to her. She prayed, “Lord Jesus, forgive me for hating him
and help me to forgive him.” She struggled
to raise her hand, but couldn’t. Again she prayed, “Jesus, I cannot
forgive him. Give me your forgiveness.”
As she slowly lifted her hand and grabbed
his, an incredible thing happened. She said, “Into my heart sprang a love
for this stranger that almost overwhelmed me. And so I discovered that it
is not on our own forgiveness that the world’s healing hinges. When He tells us to love our enemies, He
gives, along with the command, the love itself.” (Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place, p. 238)
How is it possible to love your enemy? God can
and will do it through you. “For you yourselves are taught by God to love
one another” (1 Thess. 4:9). Jesus will give you love for your enemy, just as
He did with Corrie. All it takes is being willing to do it. www.makinglifecount.net www.kentcrockett.blogspot.com
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