The world is finite and everything is weakening and dying. We look for something certain, strong, undying, and infinite; and religion tells us it is God we seek.
We have envisioned God as strong, complete, all-powerful, and removed from suffering. In Jesus, however, we see a God who suffers and participates in the finiteness of the world.
Pain and beauty constitute the two faces of God, and only vulnerability forces us beyond ourselves and into this divine mystery. When we rush, for example, toward a hurting child, we also rush toward the suffering God. We want to take the suffering in our arms.
Vulnerability allows us to embrace suffering and meet Christ there. It “saves” us from our fallen, false, sinful self.
2 Corinthians 12:10 "That’s why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong."
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