Giving It To God
 

Giving It To God By Dave Branon

[He] went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. —Mark 10:22

A hero to a generation of people who grew up after World War II, Corrie ten Boom left a legacy of godliness and wisdom. A victim of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, she survived to tell her story of faith and dependence on God during horrendous suffering.

“I have held many things in my hands,” Corrie once said, “and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that, I still possess.”

Corrie was well acquainted with loss. She lost family, possessions, and years of her life to hateful people. Yet she learned to concentrate on what could be gained spiritually and emotionally by putting everything in the hands of her heavenly Father.

What does that mean to us? What should we place in God’s hands for safekeeping? According to the story of the rich young man in Mark 10, everything. He held abundance in his hands, but when Jesus asked him to give it up, he refused. He kept his possessions and he failed to follow Jesus—and as a result he “went away sorrowful” (v.22).

Like Corrie ten Boom, we can find hope by putting everything in God’s hands and then trusting Him for the outcome.
All to Jesus I surrender,
All to Him I freely give;
I will ever love and trust Him,
In His presence daily live. —Van de Venter

No life is more secure than a life surrendered to God.

A woman asked me in early recovery how I could be so happy and content. I lived in a bachelor apartment and was on Welfare waiting for my disability to go through. The Social Worker who got me into treatment helped me put the paper work through. She wanted to go after my doctor's license for being my supplier for years but I wouldn't allow her to do it because he was also my aunt's doctor. She thought he was next to God but she saw the light the next year and changed doctors.

This same woman had her own job, worked for the government, and was complaining about her job, and was afraid of losing her home. She had about 10 years in the program. As my sponsor said, "You can go to a meeting and learn two things. How to work your program and how not to work your program.