Corrie ten Boom helped dozens of Jews escape the holocaust. They hid them in a secret room behind their bedrooms above their little watch repair shop in Holland. Eventually the Germans caught them. Corrie and her family and friends were submitted to the horrors of the concentration camps. Miraculously Corrie survived. In her book, The Hiding Place, she describes that amazing release from Ravensbrück in December 1944. She also describes in sickening details the living-death in those inventions of madmen driven by evil.
Corrie eventually traveled to tell her story. The demand to hear her story became so great that she eventually traveled internationally to tell people about her escape and the saving, forgiving power of Jesus Christ her Lord. She would often say, “I have a glove here in my hand. The glove cannot do anything by itself, but when my hand is in it, it can do many things. True, it is not the glove, but my hand in the glove that acts. We are gloves. It is the Holy Spirit in us who is the hand, who does the job. We have to make room for the hand so that every finger is filled.”
“If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him” (Romans 8:9 CSB). So many tell me they believe in God and live a good life. But if you do not confess Jesus then you don’t believe in His Father. So you believe in God, so do the demons and they tremble at the thought. But demons are doomed to hell. Jesus said that He is the only way to the Father (John 14:6). If you deny Jesus then you don’t get the Father. You confess Jesus then you get the Father too (Matthew 10:32-33).
“Our whole lives are meant to be a confession, or a recognition, of Jesus Christ” Tony Evans says in his book, Kingdom Focus. The Spirit of Christ fills you when you glorify, confess, and witness to Jesus as Lord. So whose hand is in the glove of your life? Is it you with your desires, goals, and purposes? Or is it Jesus with His desires, goals, and purposes?
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