Newness of Life

  Righteousness Is a Gift   Corrie Ten Boom was a young woman in Nazi Germany whose family helped hundreds of Jewish families escape Hitler’s death camps.  Tragically, her entire family perished in the Nazi Concentration camps. After the war ended, she travelled the globe preaching about the importance of forgiveness.  Following one of her talks in Holland, an officer who was at Ravensbrook concentration camp approached Corrie to ask for her forgiveness.  All of the pain and grief came flooding back to Corrie when she recognized that this man had been one of the officers at Ravensbrook.  As he held out his hand awaiting her reply, all she could see was the skeletal form of her dear sister, Betsy, who had died at Ravensbrook.  Although she had just spoken on forgiveness, she found that she was unable to take his hand.  As she stood there motionless, Corrie says that she cried out to God, “help!”  Suddenly, Romans 5:5 came to her mind.  “ And hope does not disappoint us, because God has