Thursday, January 31, 2008


God is Always with You

By Robert A. Schuller


"As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you." -Joshua 1:5b


Even if you are traveling alone in this life, you are never really alone - God is with you. I was reminded of this one day as I sat visiting with Corrie ten Boom in her home in Southern California.

Corrie was a marvelous Dutch Christian woman whose family hid Jews and others and was imprisoned for it in a Nazi concentration camp for several years, survived and was eventually released. As we sat visiting, Corrie pulled a blade of grass from her pocket and told me this story: "There was a point in my life in the concentration camp when I didn't feel like I could go on another day. I woke up one morning and said, 'God, where are You? Are you alive or are You dead?' All day I wrestled with the existence of God.

When I went to sleep that night I was filled with anger toward Him because of all the evil and horrors of the concentration camp. When I awoke the next morning, a beam of light was shining down through a tiny crack in the ceiling. I followed the stream of light and saw it was shining on a blade of grass in the corner of my cell.

It hadn't been there the day before - or at least I hadn't noticed it. When I saw that tiny sign of life, I knew God was there with me and that He hadn't forgotten me." Corrie was the only one in her family to survive the Nazi persecutions and one of the few who lived to tell her story. But as Corrie's story demonstrates, in the deepest struggles of life and in the most hellish of circumstances, God is with you!
Just because you can't see God in your life doesn't mean He's not there.

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