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MORE
THAN ENOUGH
by
Jinnie
Parsons
“And the grace of our
Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.” 1
Timothy 1:14
Each
of us has a life story. No two are
just the same. Some have striking
events while others are more of the daily grind.
We know we live on this earth and our lives are heading somewhere.
There’s a God who has given each of us a life to live here. What has He
given us to live our days? What
I’ve found in my life is that He’s given us more
than enough for every need! He
tells us all about them in the words He’s provided in our Bibles.
In the summer of 2007 my
life took a unique turn. I had been
having unusual feelings and headaches, which led my doctor to schedule a MRI.
It revealed a brain tumor in the front temporal lobe of my brain.
This was a new experience for me! As
I considered this unexpected path, I was confident that God knew just where it
was going to lead. I found that I
could choose to trust Him each step of the way.
When we trust God, He gives us more
than enough strength to take the next step with peaceful confidence in our
hearts.
“Thou
wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he
trusteth in thee.”
Isaiah 26:3
Surgery came next—not hard
to remember the date—on 9/11! This
revealed that the tumor was a malignant glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), (the most
common and most aggressive type of brain tumor), and could not be surgically
removed. I would be able to have
radiation and chemotherapy attempting to slow the growth of the tumor, but
humanly speaking, the prognosis was not optimistic.
I knew that I just needed to thank our God for what He had given!
He does nothing random for any of us.
His purpose is always more than enough!
“And
we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them
who are the called according to his purpose.” Romans
8:28
During this time I began to
hear of some amazing things that God was doing.
I began to hear from people all over the country saying, “We’re
praying for you.” It occurred to
me that I was just a tool in this event. The
Lord was using this story to encourage others far and near.
He was giving more than enough
joy and encouragement to many people, including me!
I didn’t need to have this tumor removed in order to have joy in my
heart. I needed to see God’s love
for me more, to know Him better!
“Now
the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound
in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.” Romans
15:13
Radiation and chemotherapy
treatments came next in a 30-day regimen designed to slow the tumor’s growth.
Now many might expect that God would heal completely during such a time,
and He certainly is able to do so! He
may yet choose to heal me here on earth, but there’s even more than physical
healing in His plans for us! He has more
than enough life, physical and
spiritual, available for all of us!
We all look at our lives
here on this earth. I know I looked
at everything! So many things to see
and do, so many things to experience. Our
God created this earth and life here, but it is a temporary time.
There’s another life after this one, a life that will never end!
Each one of us will live in one of two places: with God Himself, or
without Him in punishment. Our God
has told us everything we need to know. As
people we aren’t the same as God. He’s
perfect and we’re not! He tells us
that all of us have lives full of disobedience to Him.
“For
all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” Romans
3:23
That was an eye-opening fact
to me. Was there any way that I
could fill that gap? No, I
couldn’t on my own. Yet God
provided more than enough to meet my need and yours!
He knew that only He could pay for our sin debt, so our God came to this
earth as Jesus Christ. He lived
here, taught here, and died here to provide us a way to gain that new life!
“For
God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
John 3:16
When Jesus Christ died and
rose from the dead, He paid for all our wrongdoing.
We can come to Him now and humbly ask for that payment.
He will freely give it to us! If
we trust what our God has done for us, we will have more than enough life, now and forever!
That’s the best gift of all from our God.
I trusted God for that gift many years ago, and I know today that the
best thing I can do is tell you how to receive that gift, too.
I have some future medical
options for this tumor. There are
research programs that may be entered. I
plan to follow each of the Lord’s steps along this path.
I have more than enough of His
joy and strength here in this life, but I have even more
than enough coming in the next!
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Born
in
Virginia
Kay Parsons, of
As Jinnie mentioned in her
testimony “Our God created this earth and life here,
but it is a temporary time. There’s
another life after this one, a life that will never end!
Each one of us will live in one of two places: with God Himself, or
without Him in punishment.”
If you would
like to know more about the eternal security Jinnie was assured of, please visit
the dedicated Promise
of Hope Area.
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