"The message we are given to proclaim is not that God has come to make our lives better, more interesting, more influential, more virtuous, or more successful, but to bury us and make us truly alive...
...Christianity is for the weak and not for the self-confident individuals in their will to power. But because he who was rich for our sakes became poor, he who was powerful for our sakes became weak, and he who was wise for our sakes became foolish, the meek "shall inherit the earth" in him (Matthew 5:5). To healthy-minded optimists, Jesus announces that he has come for the sick, not for the healthy. We need something more than chicken soup for our souls; we need to be transferred from the domain of sin and death into the kingdom of God's Son. We need hope, and not the kind of hope expressed in the American Dream or in the vague sentimentalism of Jiminy Cricket's "wishing upon a star," but rather "a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek" (Hebrew 6: 19-20).
A Place for Weakness by Michael Horton
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