God's love is revealed ultimately through the cross of Christ. Theodicies try to explain away the problem of evil and suffering but they do so in vain. One can only point to the cross and say, even in the evil of this, God overcomes it. We all must wrestle with the heights of God and the depths of misery (Jersak, p.162). Jesus outstretched arms reaches across the cosmos of the infinite chasm of our pain and God's perfection. Bradley Jersak powerfully says, "The cosmic crucifixion extends through time and space (A More Christlike God, p.172). We struggle in the forces of heaven and hell on earth just as Jesus did. God knows our suffering because he crossed the universe to come be one of us. As Dietrich Bonehoeffer once said, "Only the suffering God can help!"
No comments:
Post a Comment