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Suffering - Tyler Staton (cancer survivor and pastor)
"The most scandalous part of Jesus to modern ears tends to be His claim to be Lord, but the most scandalous part of Jesus to ancient ears was that He the Lord would suffer.
God on a throne, sure.
But God on a cross? A God who weeps? A God who bleeds? A God who grieves? 'Never.'
I understand why its such a shock that God would suffer, but I also think that a God who doesn't suffer probably isn't a God worth trusting. Because after all, without the courage to crawl down into the world and fill the darkness with the same helplessness as the rest of us, how could God be trusted? How could God be relatable without enduring His own suffering? How could God then author a story of redemption meaningful enough to renew my suffering?
Jesus and only Jesus makes suffering sufferable. Jesus is set apart from every other form of divinity, in that He alone is the God who suffers. He deals with suffering by suffering, makes a way through suffering by suffering, and looks you in the eye in the midst of your suffering by suffering.
Jesus is winning a decisive victory, but he's doing it by bearing the cost of the curse; he's enduring the real life experience of a sin-infected creation.The word made flesh, God in human form, carried His own cross, mocked and nailed down to it as a common criminal.
But of course it was not Jesus' life that died, it was our sin. It wasn't Jesus' life that never rose from the tomb, it was the consequences of the curse and the grip that suffering had on the human story."
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Suffering - Tyler Staton (cancer survivor and pastor)
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