Loving Leadership

ONE DAY during a time of prayer, I began to weep as I noticed my resistance to suffering. As quickly as I noted this truth however, a greater truth penetrated my spirit: ‘It is because you have not yet experienced the depths of my love.’

I began to reflect on the beauty and power of a life shaped by the depths of God’s love. I focused on Jesus, God’s beloved Son with whom He was delighted (Matthew 3:17) and whose suffering on the cross was His like billowing winds of shame. Desolation came and left me numb, but that soon wore off and my unmedicated pain roared like a dying lion from deep within me. Everything seemed dim in this new reality. I didn’t even know if I would weather the secondary storms of deceptive accusation that buffeted me. …