🙌It's the Good Friday Call to Worship!🙌

Corrie ten Boom was born on Good Friday in 1892. Her family's home in Haarlem, Holland would become part of the underground movement for Jewish people during World War II.

The story goes that Corrie's father comforted his daughter while she cried over a broken heart before the war began. "Corrie, love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain... We can kill the love so it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or, Corrie, we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel..."

Corrie spent her fifty-third birthday in solitary confinement for protecting Jewish people. She was moved to the notorious Women's Extermination Camp, Ravensbruck, where more than 96,000 women would die.

To use her father's words, "love was blocked" would be an understatement, but Corrie certainly experienced God opening up "another route for love to travel". She made it into Ravensbruck with her Bible and a tiny bottle of vitamin drops, despite a strip search. Miraculously, the vitamin bottle kept producing drop after drop as she shared with the sick. Later, Corrie and her sister decided to thank God for a flea infestation. They couldn't have known those fleas would be the instrument that kept guards away and allowed them to pray, worship and teach God's Word without restraint. Corrie went to be with Jesus on her ninety-first birthday.

This Friday, we remember the day when all hell broke loose and tried to kill love once and for all. But a King on a cross was the other route for love to travel. What looked like the end was the beginning.

Love won - not despite the cross but because of the cross. Love was winning while He hung on the cross and is still victorious today. Even if it doesn't look like it. If you can't see Love, cry out to Him. Your worship opens the route for love to travel.

Listen to Phil Wickham's "What An Awesome God".