JUST IN TIME

Do you ever worry about what might happen in the future? Or do you
find yourself anxious about things over which you have no control? If
so, then a teaching from author and lecturer Corrie ten Boom may help.

She learned a powerful lesson as a little girl. Having encountered the
cold, lifeless body of a baby, she realized that the reality of death
would someday strike her family, too. Perhaps her father or mother or
sister, Betsy, would soon die.

She anxiously worried about these possibilities until her father came
in one night to tuck her into bed. Corrie burst into tears and sobbed,
"I need you. You can't die. You can't!"

Her father sat on the edge of the narrow bed and spoke tenderly to his
daughter. "Corrie," he said gently, "when you and I go to Amsterdam,
when do I give you your ticket?"

She sniffed a few times and considered the question. "Why, just before
I get on the train," she answered.

"Exactly," he continued. Then he gave her assurance that was to last a
lifetime. He told her that a wise God knows when she will need things,
too. "Don't run out ahead of God," he cautioned her. "When the time
comes that some of us have to die, you will look into your heart and
find the strength you need -- just in time."

Corrie and her family were sent to concentration camps where she
suffered greatly during World War II. She, indeed, was to experience
the deaths of her parents and sister, as well as numerous friends. She
was to endure hardships that she could never have imagined as a young
child. But the words of her father stayed with her and proved to be
true. "You will look into your heart and find the strength you need --
just in time." Regardless of the suffering or hardship she
encountered, when she looked inside her heart she found the strength
she needed -- just in time.

If you find yourself worried or anxious about an uncertain
future...perhaps you are running ahead. You have not yet been given
the ticket for the journey. And if that thing you fear should ever
arrive, it is then you must look inside your heart. The strength you
need can be found there -- just in time.


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