Corrie ten Boom wrote:<\/p>\n
Often I have heard people say, \u201cHow good God is! We prayed that it would not rain for our church picnic and look at the lovely weather!\u201d Yes, God is good when He sends good weather. But God was also good when He allowed my sister, Betsie, to starve to death before my eyes in a German concentration camp. I remember one occasion when I was very discouraged there. Everything around us was dark, and there was darkness in my heart.<\/p>\n
I remember telling Betsie that I thought God had forgotten us. \u201cNo, Corrie,\u201d said Betsie, \u201cHe has not forgotten us. Remember His Word: ‘For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His steadfast love toward those who fear him.'”<\/p>\n
Corrie concludes, \u201cThere is an ocean of God\u2019s love available – there is plenty for everyone. May God grant you never to doubt that victorious love – whatever the circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Corrie ten Boom wrote: Often I have heard people say, \u201cHow good God is! We prayed that it would not rain for our church picnic and look at the lovely weather!\u201d Yes, God is good when He sends good weather. But God was also good when He allowed my sister, Betsie, to starve to death […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3391,123,1824,1427,3392],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}