Holy Week 2025:
Human suffering is an invitation to experience God; to experience the God who is, not the God we have made Him out to be. Moses only saw the back of God. In this age, we are invited to see the face of God; His face is only seen in the Christ of the Cross, and Christ on the cross. This is the place God showed up to suffer with humanity; this is the place where we see what God is really like. When suffering descends on, us we want to run away; in so doing we run away from the cross and the deeper experience of God. Suffering invites us to come near to God. It invites us to solidarity with Him; it invites us to enter into His suffering, to feel what He feels and to bear His pain while simultaneously knowing that He bears our pain. We don’t seek suffering, but it will come to us in the nature of life with its varied circumstances. When it comes, experience God in it. You will start to know what He experiences, you will begin to weep with the God who weeps.
“That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death” (Philippians 3:10, NASB).
