I always went to Christian schools, but when I was fifteen years old, I went to a non-Christian school.  I was there with pupils and teachers who did not know the Lord. How I talked to them, and moreover….how I prayed for them. Recently, I received a letter: “Do you know, Corrie, that sixty years ago we were at school together? I saw you on TV. I’d like to tell you that I am a follower of Jesus, too.” An answer after sixty years!

- Reflection of God’s Glory by Corrie Ten Boom

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If you are waiting for God to answer your prayers do not be discouraged, for He will do so in His timing. It may take years, or even decades, for you to know that your prayers were answered, but you can know right now that they are never ignored!

This is a real-time essay. The Lord is calling me to obey him in something today, and I would like to write to you about it as I process it. The matter concerns an angry email I received this morning and my working through how to reply. My first reaction was self-defense. I felt I had grounds. I felt I had been misunderstood. I felt I could justify what I was being accused of.

Still, I have decided to wait a while before replying. In the meantime I have read the Bible, taken a long walk, had breakfast, replied to other emails, and watched a 1974 interview of Corrie Ten Boom.

This was enough time for the Holy Spirit who lives inside me to suggest I trash my scripted reply to the angry letter. It is possible to be right in an argument (and yet I may not be as right as I think I am) but to be called to a higher response than rightness. If I respond to my friend with my justifications, he may agree with me or he may not. But will that produce the best result? Paul says, “The aim of our charge is love” (1 Timothy 1:5). What response could I give to the man that would be most aligned with that aim?

Over the past few hours I have come around to seeing that my words to my friend (the words that prompted his terse email) were not the best; they fell short of Christ’s call to “be perfect.” There are a dozen things I could have said that would have been better—that would have been peaceable, gentle, fruitful (James 3:17). And when we know what is the best thing to do and yet we settle for something less, we sin (James 4:17).

I have found throughout my life that when apologizing and asking forgiveness, it is best to do it cleanly. Tacking on a rider, even a mild and subtle one, ruins a worthy apology. When I speak to my friend next, I will simply tell him that I should not have spoken to him that way—and then may the Lord put a clamp on my mouth. Let me make this a public commitment before you all.

I know that afterward I will feel strengthened in my spirit if I do things God’s way and not in the way of fleshly desire. One always does. The choice of sin always carries its own punishment in the body (Romans 1:27), and the choice o    f obedience its own reward (2 Corinthians 3:18).

Courtesy of Andree Seu of Worldmag

Ten Boom | Ten Boom Museum

Ten Boom | Ten Boom Museum

We have a wonderful opportunity to share the story of Corrie ten Boom with the world. Dr. Michael D. Evans will be New York City next week for an on-air interview with Glenn Beck on Tuesday. He is planning to air “The Hiding Place” on his program on next Friday the 11th. Pray that the message of love and sacrifice to save Jewish people that is found in this movie will spread around the world and touch many hearts. We will be promoting the Ten Boom Museum and the virtual tour as well.

Dr. Michael Evans and Glenn Beck shares the same admiration for Corrie Ten Boom’s heroism.

Don’t forget to join the Corrie Ten Boom Museum in Facebook!

The Corrie Ten Boom Fellowship is headed by Mike Evans.  He purchased and restored the Corrie ten Boom house in 1983 and developed it into a Corrie Ten Boom Museum.  The museum is housed in the former home of Casper ten Boom and is dedicated to telling the story of his family which harbored, fed and found safe houses for as many as 800 Jews during the Nazi takeover of Holland during World War II. Mike Evans and  Glenn Beck talked about the life and works of Corrie Ten Boom in the Restoring Courage Event in Caeserea, Israel last Aug. 21, 2011.

Glenn Beck invited Mike Evans to speak in Caeserea, Israel at the Restoring Courage event that was held last. Aug. 22, 2011.   It was a revivifying talk by both great speakers (Mike Evans and Glenn Beck) whose vision is to save Jerusalem.   Mike Evans ad Glenn Beck supports the Corrie Ten Boom Fellowship.

Ten Boom Museum is one of the significant places in Holland.  Located at 19 Barteljorisstraat, Haarlem. Ten Boom Museum is famously known as the watch shop owned by Corrie Ten Boom’s father whose family have been good samaritans to the Jews and other fugitives during the war in the 1940’s.

You can visit the Virtual Tour Site of the Ten Boom Museum or book a flight to Holland and let Ten Boom Museum take you back in time and be stunned with Corrie Ten Boom’s ingenuity and chivalry.

Ten Boom was born on April 15, 1892, in Haarlem, in the Netherlands. Before her first birthday, her grandfather died and left his home and watchmaking business, founded in 1837, to her father. The family, which included older sisters Betsie and Nollie, and a brother, Willem, moved into the house on Barteljorisstraat 19, and her father took over the storefront business below. The family lived in a quirky warren of rooms above the shop over three separate floors, and about Corrie Ten Boom, she and her sister Betsie shared a room at the back of the house on a high third floor. During their youth, the household also included three aunts, who helped care for the four ten Boom children.

Like Betsie, ten Boom never married, and eventually joined her father’s watch sales and repair business. She also became the first licensed woman watchmaker in the Netherlands. The family members were devout Christians, active members of the Dutch Reformed church, and ten Boom followed in the footsteps of one of her aunts and participated in several charitable aid projects in Haarlem. The ten Boom home and business served as a hub of activity in their neighborhood, and they regularly provided a meal to beggars and took in foster children. All the local children were especially fond of ten Boom’s pious but genial father, Casper, nicknamed “Opa,” or grandfather.

Dr. Michael D. Evans is a #1 New York Times bestselling author. His electrifying new fiction novel, Game Changer, is based on Dr. Evans’ 35 years working in the Middle East. He paints an action-filled story of terrorism, plots, love and military intelligence.