The schedule for this evening will be, quote,
tell us what we usually get to know
and reintroduce a person, who they are and
where they're from.
That'll come out in her talk.
I'll bless the floor if you can see
it and have it here.
I'm very glad for this way of introduction.
For the first time when I came in
America I had to get used of the
American way of being introduced.
Sometimes I got almost a headache by the
heat of the halo that people make around
my head.
But this time I learned very much from
the woodpecker.
You know the woodpecker?
He was picking with his beak against the
stem of a tree, and the very same
moment the lightning struck that tree and destroyed
it.
And the woodpecker flew away and he said,
My, I didn't know that there was so
much power in my beak.
When there's power this afternoon, it is not
by the power in my beak, but by
the Holy Spirit.
And I hope you will pray that I
will not stand in the way.
For we all need a great blessing, all
of us.
We are standing in the front line of
the battle.
And I have the assurance that never the
battle has been so severe as in this
time.
The powers of darkness and the powers of
light are fighting together and you and I
stand between them.
And now it is very important that we
realize and that we see the reality.
For I believe that not the communists are
the greatest danger for this world, but I
believe that powerless Christians are the greatest danger
for this time.
And it is not necessary that you and
I are powerless, because the Lord means business
with His promises.
And when He has said, I will give
you power after the Holy Spirit has come
upon you, then we know that we are
living in a time that the Holy Spirit
is here, and that we have all the
power that we need in the Holy Spirit.
And now it is only the question not
to ask more of the Holy Spirit, but
to give more to the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is here and He is
willing to fill you and to give you
the fruit of the Spirit and the gifts
of the Spirit.
And I will speak today about 1 Corinthians
13, and I believe it is good that
I tell you a little bit about what
I have seen the last years, going over
the world, speaking in many different congregations, and
I have seen that the Lord is doing
a great work.
Sometimes in congregations where I had not expected
it, and the Holy Spirit is poured out
in the churches, and miracles are happening so
that I almost believe, or I really believe
that these are the days of what God
spoke through Joel, that He has said, I
will pour out of my Spirit on all.
And old people will dream dreams and young
people will see visions.
And now it is a very important thing
that you and I see the reality.
And that is why I will read for
you now 1 Corinthians 14, 8-11, I
read it from the translation of Phillips, because
that is in English that even a Dutch
can understand.
One man's gift by the Spirit is to
speak with wisdom, and others to speak with
knowledge.
The same Spirit gives to another man faith,
to another the ability to heal, to another
the power to do great deeds.
The same Spirit gives to another man the
gift of preaching the Word of God, to
another the ability to discriminate in spiritual matters,
to another speech in different tongues, and to
yet another the power to interpret the tongues.
Behind all these gifts is the operation of
the same Spirit who distributes to each individual
man as He will.
And then in verse 31, You should set
your hearts on the highest spiritual gifts, but
I will show you what is the highest
way of all.
And then chapter 13, If I speak with
the eloquence of men and of angels, but
have no love, I become no more than
blaring brass or crashing cymbal.
If I have the gift of foretelling the
future, and hold in my mind not only
all human knowledge, but the very secrets of
God, and if I also have that absolute
faith which can move mountains, but have no
love, I amount to nothing at all.
If I dispose of all that I possess,
yes, even if I give my own body
to be burned, but have no love, I
achieve precisely nothing.
This love of which I speak is slow
to lose patience.
It looks for a way of being constructive.
It is not possessive.
It is neither anxious to impress, nor does
it cherish inflated ideas of its own importance.
Love has good manners and does not pursue
selfish advantage.
It is not touchy.
It does not keep account of evil or
gloat over the wickedness of other people.
On the contrary, it is glad with all
good men when truth prevails.
Love knows no limit to its endurance, no
end to its stress, no fading of its
hope.
It can outlast anything.
It is, in fact, the one thing that
still stands when all else has fallen.
For if there are prophecies, they will be
fulfilled and done with.
If there are tongues, the need for them
will disappear.
If there is knowledge, it will be swallowed
up in truth.
For our knowledge is always incomplete, and our
prophecy is always incomplete.
And when the complete comes, that is the
end of the incomplete.
When I was a little child, I talked
and felt and thought like a little child.
Now that I am a man, my child's
speech and feeling and thoughts have no further
significance for me.
At present, we are men looking at puzzling
reflections in a mirror.
The time will come when we shall see
reality whole and face to face.
At present, all I know is a little
fraction of the truth, but a time will
come when I shall know it as fully
as God now knows me.
In this life, we have three great lasting
qualities, faith, hope, and love.
But the greatest of them is love.
Follow then the way of love while you
set your heart on the gifts of the
Spirit.
During the last world war, I was a
prisoner in a concentration camp because my family,
my friends, and I had saved Jewish people
in Holland.
My sister Betsy and I were in Ravensbruck.
A concentration camp where 97,000 women were
killed or died.
Also my sister was killed.
We had a little Bible.
It was a miracle that we had it.
And every day, I gave a Bible message
to the people who wanted to hear the
message.
The Bible was a forbidden book.
If they had known that I had a
Bible, they should have killed me in a
cruel way.
But there was a great inconvenience in the
room where we were together with 700 prisoners
pushed together in a small room.
Three small bunks and all the bunks together.
And the terrible thing was that it was
so dirty that very soon our clothing was
full of lice.
And that was terrible and it caused many
sicknesses, but it was also a help for
the guards and the officers who would never
come into our room.
They were afraid to get lice from us.
That was good.
The Bible was a forbidden book, but in
Barrett 28 we had twice a day a
Bible message.
And God used for that lice.
God can use everything.
And what a joy to bring that message
of salvation, of a joy unspeakable and full
of glory to these people.
I have never spoken so often about heaven.
And oh, what a joy that there is
a peace that passes all understanding, a happiness
that is not dependent on happening.
Now, these people who came every day, I
had often talked with them.
And I never asked them, when I so
was talking with them, I never asked, say,
what do you think about predestination?
We were Dutch prisoners and Dutch people always
speak about predestination, but I didn't do that
in that time.
I didn't ask the people, say, what do
you think is the most biblical way of
baptism?
I didn't ask them, say, what is now
your idea about the millennium?
A pre-, post-millennium?
I learned from Edwin R.
that that is a preposterous question.
Do you know, in these moments that 600
people every day were killed, and that we
saw the smoke go up from the crematorium,
in these moments we did not speak about
such things.
Do you know what I asked these people?
I asked them, say, do you know that
Jesus died at the cross for the sins
of the whole world?
And when she said, yes, I know it.
Then I asked, do you understand that Jesus
died for you?
And if she said, yes, I do, then
I asked her, did you make clean debt
with your sins?
Did you bring all your sins to Jesus?
And then she said, yes.
Then I was so happy that I knew
that.
And when I saw that she disappeared that
day into the gas chamber, I was so
happy that I knew that she was saved.
You know, there are moments that you do
not speak about the second best, only about
the best.
Now, I know it.
We are not standing at this moment in
front of a gas chamber and a crematorium,
but everyone who has brains knows that we
are living in a very dangerous world.
And tonight I hope to speak about the
securities in the midst of the insecurities, for
that is the message that America needs, and
the message that the whole world needs.
Now, I have traveled now over 41, or
I have worked in 41 countries, and these
last years I saw what the Holy Spirit
is doing and giving to people who are
open for the Lord Jesus and all what
He is willing to give us, and closed
for the world and what the world is
willing to give.
And then I see that people get a
fullness of the Holy Spirit, some call it
a baptism of the Holy Spirit, some call
it a second blessing, some call it a
third blessing.
I don't know what the people call it,
but I am so happy that I see
what the Holy Spirit is doing.
But I also find churches where there is
a great confusion, just because the Holy Spirit
is giving gifts.
And I think that the reason is because
when God is giving a blessing, then the
devil is scared to death.
The devil doesn't like Spirit-filled Christians and
Spirit-filled churches.
And he will do his utmost to bring
separation between these people.
And perhaps I have not to tell you,
but I think all of us know that
some people say you cannot have the fullness
of the Holy Spirit without the gifts of
tongues, and others say you can't have the
baptism of the Holy Spirit without tongues.
And I believe it is not good to
quarrel about it.
Just enjoy it.
And what the other people are concerned, just
love them.
And we have heard when you have the
gifts without love, then you have nothing at
all.
And don't criticize and don't quarrel about it.
Don't use the time for quarreling about the
gifts when the world and the church and
everyone is hungry for the fruit of the
Spirit, love.
Sometimes I use this illustration, just imagine that
your house is on fire, and that the
firemen come.
And then there is a very clever fireman
who gathers all the other men around him
and stands in the corner of your room
and gives a very good lecture about best
methods of extinguishing flames.
What is that?
That's a crime.
Just imagine that one says, by the way,
listen, I think my uniform is far more
practical than your uniform.
What is that?
At that moment it is a crime.
My friends, the world is on fire, on
flames.
The world is dying.
There is a terrific fight and you are
standing in the midst of that fire.
And now to quarrel about the gifts of
the Spirit can be a crime.
But listen, isn't it important, the best method
of extinguishing the flames?
Isn't it important that you have a good
uniform?
Yes, but there are times that you don't
quarrel about, but you do nothing but put
out the flames.
And this moment we have now in our
churches and in our world.
And I hope that we will get a
new vision on what it means that you
and I are called to be the light
of the world in perhaps the most dangerous
moment of the whole world's history.
That is doing nothing else but winning souls
and bringing the Christians to a realization that
the Holy Spirit fullness is for everyone.
And that is not quarrel about it, but
just love.
And now I will tell you something of
what I have learned about that love of
God.
I didn't know that there was in the
original language two words for love, philia and
agape.
And in that time that I didn't know
that, I did not like to read 1
Corinthians 13 because I compared my love with
this beautiful love, and my love was so
inadequate and so small and so powerless, and
I compared it with this beautiful love.
And then I read, I heard it about
that there are two kinds of love, the
human love and God's love.
And I read in Romans 5, that the
love of God is shed abroad into our
hearts by the Holy Spirit who is given
to us.
And there I understood this love is not
a human love that we must reduce.
It is just the love of God, the
fruit of the Holy Spirit, and that's for
you and me because of Romans 5.
And I learned to thank God for Romans
5.
And it was really in that surrounding of
hatred, where I was surrounded by people who
had had a training in cruelties, when I
was in that terrible concentration camp, that I
learned that God's love is in fact the
one thing that still stands when all else
has fallen.
I didn't know that.
I had to learn it.
I remember that in the time that we
were in the underground work, and so many
people had to hide themselves from the enemy,
there came a boy home.
He was a teenager, and he was in
danger because the teenagers and the men were
just taken from the street and sent to
Germany to be slave laborers and make the
guns and the bombs to kill the Allies.
So we did not only hide Jewish people,
but we hid also the young men.
And Thich, the son of my friend, came
home, and he said, Daddy, I cannot stand
this life anymore.
I see myself as a chaste animal.
Always when I'm happy in the house, then
I hear that the Gestapo is behind me.
Then his father said a strange thing.
He said, Thich, there is an ocean of
God's love.
Couldn't understand that.
I thought he was very impractical.
I had not yet learned that God's love
still stands also when all else has fallen.
A year later I understood it better when
Nolly, my younger sister, the mother of six
children, was arrested because they found two Jews
in her house.
And I ran to the police station and
I saw her coming from the door, going
to the prison van that should bring her
to a terrible prison where many people were
killed.
And I put my arms around her, and
I can confess you I cried, but Nolly
said with a smile, God is love.
Had she said, Can you believe that God
is love?
That he allows the enemy to bring me
to a prison?
I could have understood, but no.
She said, God is love.
And in the prison van she wrote on
the wall, Jesus is victor.
And coming into the prison there were five
women and they said, Don't you cry?
We all cry when we come for the
first time into a prison, but Nolly said,
No, I don't cry.
God does not make mistakes.
That he allowed the enemy to bring me
here.
You see, she saw the things as it
were from God's point of view.
And she knew that God's love still stands
also when all else has fallen.
And a year later, she was set free
very soon, after six weeks already, but a
year later she was again arrested when my
old father with all his children and a
grandson and 50 friends were arrested.
And when Betsy, my older sister and I
came in that terrible destruction Camp Ravensbruck.
And there we stood on roll call every
morning, often three hours, from 3.30 till
6.30 in the icy cold mornings.
Some of the guards who were on duty
had to stand there with us and some
used that time to demonstrate their cruelties.
And one morning I could hardly bear to
see and to hear what had happened in
front of me.
And suddenly a skylark came and started to
sing in the sky.
And all the prisoners looked up and listened
to the bird song.
And when I looked at the bird, I
looked at the sky and I thought that
Psalm 103, as high as heaven over the
earth, so high is God's mercy and love
over all that fear Him.
And suddenly I saw it.
Oh, love of God, how deep and great,
far deeper than man's deepest hate.
And God sent that skylark daily during three
weeks, exactly during roll call time, to turn
away our eyes from the cruelty of man
unto the ocean of God's love.
Where did I get that expression, the ocean
of God's love?
It was from George Fox.
He once had a vision and he wrote,
I saw an ocean of darkness and death,
but an infinite ocean of light and love
which flowed over the ocean of darkness.
In that I saw the infinite love of
God.
And it is at a cross, at a
cross, where I first saw the light and
the burden of my sins rolled away.
It was there by faith I received my
sight.
And in 1 John 4, 9 we read
to us the greatest demonstration of God's love
for us has been sending His only Son
unto the world to give us life through
Him.
And 1 John 3, 16, we know and
to some extent realize the love of God
for us because Christ expressed it in laying
down His life for us.
And that love of God is the greatest
reality.
Some time ago I was just making clean
deck with my sins.
I needed it.
I knew there was something in me that
was not good and also a little bit
dark.
And that's not, that is not a standing
of a child of God.
We are children of light.
And I said, Lord, show me if there
is perhaps a hidden sin.
And the Lord showed me some sins and
I just claimed the promise of 1 John
1, 7 and 9 and I confessed them
and He forgave and the blood of Jesus
cleansed me.
What a joy!
And I said, Lord, is there still anything
between you and me?
And God said, Yes.
And I waited and listened.
And I thought, now I will hear some
sin that I have forgotten.
Do you know what God said?
My love.
And suddenly I saw it.
And I was still thinking a sin that
was between God and me.
But God said, My love is between you
and me.
Wasn't that a joy?
My friends, God's love is the greatest reality
for a child of God.
And God's love still stands also when all
else has fallen.
And here in America things can fall.
And that's why we must realize it.
And we must see the reality.
And I like to pray with an open
Bible and say, Father, you have said it,
now you must do it.
And God likes it.
For He has meant business with the 17
,000 promises in the Bible.
And He likes it when we mean business
with His promises.
And in that terrible camp full of hatred
and cruelty, the Holy Spirit taught me a
prayer.
A thank you for Romans 5.
And when the cruelty around me brought hatred
in my heart and bitterness, He taught me
this prayer.
Thank you, Lord Jesus, that you have brought
into my heart God's love through the Holy
Spirit who is given to me.
And thank you, Father, that your love in
me is victorious over the bitterness in my
heart and the cruelty around me.
And there was no room for bitterness.
But it is perhaps what Paul should call
in 1 Corinthians 1 and 2 the foolishness
of God.
But it is so that the highest potence
of God's love is available in everyday life.
Life has perhaps 30 big crises but 30
,000 small crises.
And the great joy is that the Bible
says whatever happens, make sure that your everyday
life is worthy the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Philippians 1.27 and Ephesians 5.2 Live
your lives in love.
The same sort of love which Christ gives
us and which He perfectly expressed when He
gave Himself in sacrifice to God.
A lady came to me and told that
she had such a difficult life.
Her husband was so dark and she said,
when I am in the same room with
him it is as if there comes a
cloud of darkness over and into me.
That is suffering.
And I taught her the prayer that the
Holy Spirit had taught me in a concentration
camp.
And I said, when you are together with
your husband and you feel that darkness, thank
God for Romans 5.
And say, thank you Lord Jesus that you
have brought into my heart God's love through
the Holy Spirit who is given to me.
And thank you Father that your love in
me is victorious over the darkness in my
husband.
Later I met her and she said, my
husband is quite changed.
Of course her husband was changed.
She had acted God's victorious love.
And a bird cannot know that it can
fly before it uses its wings.
And we cannot experience God's love in our
hearts before we act it.
A teacher could not manage his class and
I taught him the same prayer.
Thank you Lord.
Not, oh Lord, bring into my heart your
love.
No, thank you Lord for Romans 5.
You have brought into my heart God's love
through the Holy Spirit who is given to
me.
And thank you Father that your love in
me is victorious over this difficult class.
And that man later, I met him and
he said, my class is absolutely changed.
Of course his class was changed.
He had acted God's victorious love.
And now think of the problem that you
have to face when you come back.
Perhaps in your home, perhaps in your church,
perhaps your office.
Human love failed or will fail on the
long run but now act God's love.
And I can tell you that miracles will
happen in your life.
I once met a parachutist and I said,
say what did you think when you jumped
for the first time from an airplane with
a parachute on your back.
He said, I had no time to think
much.
But there were two words in my heart.
It works.
And I can tell you friends, if you
endure, act God's love, there are three words
in your heart.
Hallelujah.
It works.
You know some time ago I was in
Manila and I could speak for an ICL
group.
You know, these blessed breakfast groups who reach
the up and outers.
And so it happened that I could speak
for the big shots of Manila.
And I gave them a message about forgiveness
and love for our enemies.
I told them that there had been in
my heart a battle, a battle against hatred.
I told them that when I was in
the underground work, there came a man to
me and said, my wife is in great
danger.
She is arrested by the Gestapo and they
have brought her in a prison.
No, in a police station.
But they will bring her next week to
a prison and I'm sure they will kill
her for she had saved Jewish people.
Please help us.
I said, how can I help her when
she is already in the hands of the
police?
He said, I found out that a policeman
is willing to run the risk to set
her free if we pay him about 600
guilders, about 200 dollars.
He said, but I have no money.
I said, but listen, that may not hinder.
Let's see, I have 200 guilders.
I will give you but come back after
an hour.
And in that hour I said to the
teenagers who worked with me in the underground
work to save the Jewish people, I said,
I need money.
I need 400 guilders.
Now in that time Dutch people were not
interested in money.
They were interested to save as many people
as they could.
And when that man came back he had,
I could give him 600 guilders and I
prayed, oh Lord, bless this money that his
wife will not be killed but that it
will really, that it will succeed this policeman
to set her free.
That man was a Quisling.
He was a Dutch man who in secret
worked together with the enemy.
His wife was not at all in a
prison.
But the enemy had said, find out if
Corrie ten Boom really saved Jewish people.
And he thought, I can find it out
and in the same time make some money.
And he made some money.
He went home with 600 guilders in his
pocket.
But five minutes later the Gestapo surrounded our
house and we were all arrested.
And I heard that that man had betrayed
us.
I hated him.
But I know that Jesus tells us to
love our enemies.
And I said, oh Father in Jesus name
forgive me my hatred.
And the two things happened that always happen
that you bring a sin to God in
Jesus name.
First He forgave me.
And second He cleansed my heart from the
hatred with His blood.
When the blood of Jesus does a job
He does a good job.
Instead of hatred I felt in my heart
the fruit of the Spirit, love.
And God's love is even love for your
enemies.
And love for lovers is good.
Love for neighbors is better.
Love for enemies is best.
And you never touch so the ocean of
God's love as that you love your enemies.
That man was sentenced to death after the
war.
Because by his betrayal he had been the
reason that many Dutch people were killed.
And when I heard that he was sentenced
to death I wrote him a letter.
And I wrote, your betrayal has meant the
death of my old father who died after
10 days in prison.
He was 84 years old.
My brother, his son, my sister died.
My other sister and I have suffered terrible
in three prisons but both of us have
forgiven you.
And that is a fraction of the forgiveness
that awaits you when you receive the Lord
Jesus as your Savior and bring Him your
sins.
And I sent him a New Testament and
underlined the way of salvation and that man
accepted the Lord Jesus as his Savior and
he was brought to death but reconciled with
God.
So I told about that and after I
was through, the president of that breakfast group
thanked me.
And then he turned to the group and
he said, French, I am so glad that
at last I have met someone who can
love her enemies.
If there were only more courage than those
in the world, we should very soon have
the brotherhood of men.
I was furious.
Now I had told often these people that
I could not love my enemies and I
could only hate them.
But that it was Jesus who did it.
And I'm disnosed.
I had to remain decent so I said,
now may I say one minute message?
She said, go ahead.
I said, my friends, when I try to
let a stick stand on my hand, do
you think I have success?
It is not the nature of a stick
to be able to stand.
But I can have it stand on the
top of my finger.
Now it stands solidly.
Why?
Because my hand keeps it.
When I try to love my enemies, my
sinful nature and the power of the devil
makes me hating and hating again.
But when I surrender to the pierced hands
of Jesus, wounded for my transgressions, his hands
will keep me from falling and will once
present me blameless and with unspeakable joy in
the great day and give me now already
love for my enemies.
So as so far it was all all
right, but what came after that, it was
not all right.
When I talked with this medical doctor, Garcia,
I was so sharp and I was so
angry.
I said, now tell me, do you tell
every week such nonsense to your breakfast group?
Did you really listen to me or didn't
you listen at all when I told you
that I could not love my enemies?
More curry-pan balls the world needs?
Do you know, do you realize that curry
-pan balls without Jesus Christ is a danger
for the world?
Now what I said was not so bad,
but how I said it was very bad.
When I came in the home of the
missionary, he said, Corrie, what's the matter with
you?
Has there happened something?
I said, yes.
And I told what had happened.
He said, my, now that's good.
Now Dr. Garcia has at last heard what
he should hear.
I said, no.
What I said was not so wrong, but
the way I said was very wrong.
He said, no, I write him a letter
and I wrote him, Dr. Garcia, I'm so
sorry for what has happened this morning.
I'm so sorry that I used my anger
to tell you something we did not agree
about.
There was an ocean of God's love available
to tell it to you, and I used
my anger.
Do you please forgive me?
And that man went to the telephone and
he said, Miss Ten Boom, I came home
from the breakfast group and I said to
my wife, now I have had a scolding
like I have not had since my school
days.
And the terrible thing was that Corrie Ten
Boom was right.
And I didn't know what to answer her.
You know, Miss Ten Boom, I felt so
unhappy.
Till your letter came.
Saying, I have never realized that there is
an ocean of God's love available for us.
Why?
I'm far richer than I used.
Now this man had to realize that.
But do you and I realize it?
Perhaps you have to tell something to one
of your congregation.
And when you do it in anger, I
can tell you it does not help.
And correct.
But there is an ocean of God's agony
available.
Be filled with the Holy Spirit and the
Holy Spirit will give you so much love
and it will help these other people.
Oh, let us not live like beggars but
like king's children.
And I can tell you it works.
It works.
God's love.
There was a pastor in Harlem, the hometown
where I was.
And he said, every Sunday there comes a
little feeble-minded boy, Tomtje, in my church.
And that boy always sits on the front
pew and I often said to my wife,
Tomtje doesn't understand one of my beautiful sermons
but he is so faithful.
He is there every Sunday.
But he said, once I spoke about God's
love through Jesus Christ.
And he said, suddenly I saw in the
face of that boy an expression of great
joy.
Tomtje understood God's love.
Now in a little booklet, Common Sense Not
Needed, you can read about the work that
I did before the war when I had
a Bible class for feeble-minded people.
And I experienced that they can never hear
too much about God's love.
And that pastor told, I had forgot the
rest of the audience and only spoke to
Tomtje about that great love of God in
Jesus Christ.
And he said, the next day I said
to my wife, I will go to Tomtje
and I will know if at last he
has understood one of my sermons.
But when I came in Tomtje's house, the
mother told me that the boy had died
in his sleep.
And he said, that there was an expression
of celestial joy on the dead face of
that boy.
I believe, he added, I believe that his
heart has broken by joy because he would
contain too much of God's love.
And I can tell you if you and
I would try to contain that old sin
of love, our heart could break by joy.
But when we give room for the Holy
Spirit, He gives us fast and strong hearts
that we can have more and more.
And M.
A.
Carmichael said, put together all the tenderest love
you know of, the deepest you have ever
felt and the strongest that has ever been
poured out upon you.
And heap upon it all the love of
all the human hearts of the world.
And then multiply it by infinity.
And you will begin perhaps to have some
faint glimpses of the love and grace of
God.
Two old negros saw for the first time
an ocean.
And one said to the other, just look
what all that water.
But the other negro said, yes, but brother,
we aren't seeing nothing yet.
This is only the top.
There are depths of love that we cannot
see, not know, till I cross the narrow
sea.
There are heights of joy that I may
not reach till I rest in peace with
thee.
We can only see a little of the
ocean when we stand at the rocky shore.
But all there beyond the eyes for us
there is more.
There is more.
We can only see a little of God's
love and a few rich treasures of his
mighty stores.
But all there beyond the ice horizon there
is more.
There is more.
And then when Jesus face to face I
see, and at his lofty throne I bow
the knee.
Then of his love in all its breadth
and length its height and depth its everlasting
strength my soul will sing the best it
yet to be.
But now already God's love still stands also
when all else should fall.
Let's pray.
Thank you Lord Jesus that you have brought
into our hearts God's love through the Holy
Spirit who is given to us.
And thank you Father that your love in
me listen Lord who says in me is
victorious over that problem that waits me when
I come in my work in my home
in my hospital and Lord you know that
I have tried to overcome it with human
love and it failed.
But thank you Lord that your love still
stands also when all else has fallen.
Holy Spirit teach us to act God's love
Amen.