Their crime was simple enough...
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Corrie ten Boom, along with 35 family members and friends, were all marched into the police station's gymnasium. There they were seated upon mats. Their crime was simple enough. These Dutch Christians hid Jews in their homes in an effort to safeguard them from capture and banishment to concentration camps. Corrie said her father, 84 at the time, had been repeatedly warned not to engage in such a dangerous ministry under the very eye of the Gestapo. His answer was plain enough: "I am too old for prison, but if that should happen, then it would be for me an honor to give my life for God's ancient people, the Jews."
That evening, Corrie's father prepared those seated for the dark and tremulous days ahead. He asked his son Willem to read Psalm 91. Afterward, her father prayed.
Corrie was sent to Scheveningen prison, where she was held in solitary confinement for several months. She was often lonely and afraid, as any of us would be. "In such moments," she wrote in her book Prison Letters, "I recalled the last night with my elderly father, sharing Psalm 91 and praying. I could remember some of those verses, especially that, 'He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.' I would close my eyes and visualize that kind of protection. 'He shall cover thee with his feathers,' and with that thought in mind, I would fall asleep."
Corrie ten Boom in the midst of her suffering received the blessing of God, which "strengthened her heart in holiness."
That evening, Corrie's father prepared those seated for the dark and tremulous days ahead. He asked his son Willem to read Psalm 91. Afterward, her father prayed.
Corrie was sent to Scheveningen prison, where she was held in solitary confinement for several months. She was often lonely and afraid, as any of us would be. "In such moments," she wrote in her book Prison Letters, "I recalled the last night with my elderly father, sharing Psalm 91 and praying. I could remember some of those verses, especially that, 'He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.' I would close my eyes and visualize that kind of protection. 'He shall cover thee with his feathers,' and with that thought in mind, I would fall asleep."
Corrie ten Boom in the midst of her suffering received the blessing of God, which "strengthened her heart in holiness."
