It is through our weakness and brokenness that we best approach a loving God. In coming to Him we acquire wisdom not by doing everything right but through our mistakes and wrongdoing.
We, however, deny our pain, sins, and suffering and habitually project them elsewhere; most often upon the world through our speech and actions, through our behavior.
The cross of Jesus is a mirror held up to the face of history, for us to see that it is by "hanging" our transgressions on His cross that we are saved. If we do not surrender and transform our pain, we will always transmit it. Suffering continues because we don’t know how to suffer.
That is what Jesus did, He took all our sins upon Himself and transformed it into grace. That is how “he took away the sin of the world.” He refused to pass it on!
John 1:29 "The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, 'Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!'"
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