The Weakness of God

by | Mar 16, 2025 | Articles, Mentors Corner

Did our God have a weakness? Jesus was crucified through weakness and it became foolishness to the perishing world. Jesus took upon himself our weak and infirm nature.  His weakness and foolishness of ours was imputed to him so that we might live. Our Heavenly Father took this on out of His love for us. Jesus was made capable of suffering, and of laying down willingly his life for us on the cross. But, he was raised from the grave, He is alive and He lives again by the divine power of God. This Spirit who raised Christ Jesus from the dead dwells in each of us. But, we are to be strong in our weakness.  As we are to be weak in him, like Him, being liable to sufferings, undergoing sufferings by his example; but we shall live with him by the power of God, of which also we have living within us. And we have access to the mind of Christ, in our soul. The apostle Paul taught us, how to look at being strong and to understand it as part of our spiritual life. “And He has said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you for power is perfected in weakness.’ Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.  Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; or when I am weak, then I am strong” (2Corinthains 12:9-10). Paul learned that God’s grace is sufficient for each and every one of us, for...