The Wisdom of God

March 6, 2011

In Christianity, there exists a “Theology of the weak”. In this theology, we recognise the necessity to be weak in order to be strong. The strong has no need of God but the weak does. God is near to the weak and faint-hearted but resists the proud and the strong.

Coming to God and admitting that our strengths may lead us to self-sufficiency and thus is our very weakness, God generously take us, forgive us and heal us. In broken repentance, we emerge from God’s Presence, strengthened in Him and not in our own power. This is a mystery and the Christian paradox.

Yes, the world applauds greatness and strength while God takes delight in the weak and the meek.

Christ illustrated this spiritual truth when He made Himself weak, emptied Himself at the cross and died as Sin for the sinners. He was a pathetic sight on the cross. He was weak.

But then in submitting to God, the Almighty lifted Him up – Christ rose again and is now seated at the Right hand of the Father. He became strong.

The cross is an apparatus of weakness and death but it is now a symbol of victory and life.

There is no brilliance in the Message of the cross – only sufferings, shames and pains. There is nothing to attract us to the cross – only nails and blood. Yet it is the tool through which our Savior uses to pardon, redeem and save us.

Looking back and looking forward, it is a mystery, paradox and brilliant and altogether wise.

I Cor 1:25
For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.