Sunday: Lon Solomon on Phineas in the Old Testament

Lon Solomon at McLean Bible Church, where I was this morning, talks today on Zeal for the Lord and the Old Testament story of Phineas.

Nobody does it better, stronger and without equivocation than Lon. Always a privilege to be at this wonderful church in Tysons Corner, Virginia.

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REFLECTION:

"It was at a church service in Munich where I was speaking that I saw him, the former SS man who had stood guard at the so-called shower room door in the processing center at Ravensbruck.With the other guards, he had often run his hands over naked bodies as they went by and responded callously to requests for help. He was the first of our actual jailers that I had seen after the war. And suddenly it was all there again—the heaps of clothing, Betsie’s pain-blanched face. And then he came up to me as the church was emptying, ‘How grateful I am for your message, Fraulein,’ he said, ‘To think that, as you say, He has washed my sins away.’ His hand was thrust out to shake mine....... But my hand stayed at my side.... Angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me—-I tried to smile, I struggled to raise my hand. I could not. I silently prayed.... Jesus I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness. As I took his hand the most incredible thing happened. From my shoulder along my arm and through my hand a current seem to pass....while into my heart sprang a love for this stranger that almost overwhelmed me."

— Corrie Ten Boom