Your Love Is Sufficient
Your Love Is Sufficient
In the past weeks I have been reflecting on people in my life.
People, I feel have great faith. The man at the top of this list
for me is George W. Allen. Or as we call him “Pop”. Pop is
my father-in-law and as my father-in-law has shared over the
years much of his faith with me. However, it has only been
in the last couple years that I have truly come to value and
seek out these conversations. I find such comfort and
wisdom in those moments that I later use in my own
reflection and meditation time.
The words he spoke that most touched me were not
spoken to me, but to my wife and then by her to me. The
words were “My Love Is Sufficient”. I heard these words one
day when I shared with my wife how amazing I felt it was
that her dad has such faith despite the constant and terrible
pain he is in from his rheumatoid arthritis. My wife
responded that she had asked him, “ Pop, how do deal with
all the pain and not get angry with God because he has not
healed you.” He said to her that he prays to Jesus to help
him with the pain and he said the Lord told him “ My Love Is
Sufficient”. And he is right.
This is such a powerful statement to me. I think back to
this often as I deal with many trials and challenges in my life.
At times I stop and ponder on what this really means and I
am always drawn to the vision of Jesus on the cross, broken,
bleeding and dying. Not there because he had done
something wrong, but to quiet him for teaching the love of
God. He could have left the cross at anytime if he wanted to
but he did not, because the love for us was/is so great.
Sometimes I avoid posting my thoughts on here because I
fear what some may say or think, my fear shuts me up! How
many of us let this sort of fear shut us up? Jesus did not die
on the cross and rise again so that we would let fears or
people shut us up.
So as I write this I pray the words of my Pop,
“His Love Is Sufficient”, because I want to be apart of
spreading the wonder of Jesus and not apart of shutting up
the Lord. I encourage each of you who read this, to open
your mouth and tell all the world of this great love Jesus has
for everyone.
Blessings
Klaven
