In her bestseller book, The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom tells of the tense times in Holland during the German invasion. One night when there was bombing and shelling happening all around the house where she and her sister lived, Corrie couldn’t sleep. Hearing her sister in the kitchen, she decided to go down and join her.

Long into the night after all the bombing ceased and all was silent, Corrie returned to her bed only to find that her pillow—right where her head lay—had been pierced with a sizable piece of sharp metal shrapnel from an exploding bomb! Going downstairs to the kitchen saved her life!

She rushed to tell her sister saying, “Betsie, if I hadn’t heard you in the kitchen . . . .” To this her saintly sister interrupted, “Don’t say it, Corrie. There are no ifs in God’s world. The center of his will is our safety.”

Later through terrible trying times in a Nazi prison, Miss Ten Boom was to learn over and over this marvelous truth: “God’s will is our hiding place.”

Suggested prayer: “Dear God, I don’t ask that you deliver me from the storms of life, but please help me to find deliverance in them. Hide me in the hollow of your hand, and in the shelter of your tabernacle, and set me high upon a rock. Gratefully in Jesus’ name. Amen.”

1. Psalm 27:5 (NIV).