THE world seems so uncertain. Your life feels so uncertain. What’s going to happen tomorrow? What’s going to happen next year? Will we be OK? Is the world getting worse?

These are our fears. And so we look for something that can give us confidence.

The Netherlands was under occupation in 1942 and Corrie Ten Boom and her family decided, because of their Christian faith, that they would hide Jewish families in the attic of their house in Haarlem. 

Ultimately, in 1944 they were betrayed and arrested by the Gestapo. 
Their father died in prison. Corrie and her sister were sent to a concentration camp. 

In the camp everything was uncertain – your next meal, your health and your treatment by the guards. Would you survive? Would you be the next to be shot? Will you ever see home again?... 

In that camp Corrie learnt to find an answer to her worry and fear. She had smuggled a small bible with her into the camp, in which are written these words: “Lord, my times are in your hands” (Psalm 31). 

She decided that she would learn to trust God. To trust him, not that everything would be fine (as often things are not fine), but that whatever happened she was in God’s hands and it would be OK.

The world and our lives are uncertain – we don’t know what will happen tomorrow. 

However, there is someone who invites us to trust Him – and who is bigger than whatever happens to us.

MATT FROST
Cirencester Baptist Church