I’ve written before on this blog about the difficulty of showing grace/love and truth simultaneously. I’m, of course, not the first to talk about this difficulty. Not only is it difficult for us to show both, but it’s difficult for us to understand how God shows both to a fallen world. Too often, we don’t get it. Corrie ten Boom did.
In this excerpt from The Hiding Place, Ms. ten Boom explains it all too well. In the midst of the madness of the German occupation of Holland, when Jews were being rounded up regularly, and anyone helping them were hunted, she came face to face with the question:
Love. How did one show it? How could God Himself show truth and love at the same time in a world like this?
By dying. The answer stood out for me sharper and chiller than it ever had before that night: the shape of a Cross etched on the history of the world.
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