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As we prepare to enter Holy Week (the week that starts with Palm Sunday and ends with Easter), at the center of it is an event I fear we often miss: the historical fact that Jesus, (the one we call the Son of God), was crucified and died on a cross.
Kathleen Norris, author of Amazing Grace, shares this about this event:
“The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.”
― Kathleen Norris
When we say we have faith, it isn’t just in a god. And I don’t think it’s even enough to say we have faith in God. Or even just a loving God. To have faith in the Christian understanding of God is to trust in “a God Who was vulnerable enough (who wanted to be in relationship with us so much) that he/she was willing to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.”
What an audacious claim we make at the cross! No wonder Paul said this about the Christian understanding of what God did at the cross: “For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.”
Our claim is not in a God who rules the skies and calls mountains into being, but that this God of all creations, loves us so much that he/she/they is willing to give all of that “power” up in order for us to know that no matter what, God is with us. That no matter what we’re going through, our God is there. That no matter what cross we are carrying, our God is carrying it with us.
Don’t get confused, folks...we’re a radical bunch! Man, what would happen, huh? If we chose to love like our God?
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