Can Hospitality Save Lives?

Can hospitality save lives?

If you get the opportunity to read The Hiding Place, it would be worth your time. Corrie Ten Boom's story about her family, who were humble, Christian, Dutch watchmakers who gave the gift they had to offer the world: hospitality. Not something most would put up as a marker for life-changing events.

Yet, this wonderful gift led them to express God's mercy, love, sacrifice and compassion to a persecuted community—the Jews during World War II.

Throughout history and the Bible, there are stories of those who invited people in need into their homes. They showed hospitality;

merely serving their fellow human beings by showing God's love by opening their homes to others.

The Ten Booms' sacrificial story is compelling, but even they would have admitted—

they were only doing the work of the work of the God they served by loving their neighbours by showing hospitality.

Would you do the same?

"The Hiding Place" by ✿ willem ツ is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.