If the God of heaven sits above all creation in resplendent untouchable glory, man can be in awe of it, but cannot experience it. Unless God comes down among us, we cannot see it. Unless the “Word made flesh” dwells with us, we will be blind to it. Until Messiah enters our suffering, we cannot behold the “glory of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth” (John 1:14). God shared our suffering; He even invited us to enter it with Him. When we enter into this shared suffering, we shall be able to be embraced by Trinitarian love. God took this Way of suffering to join us and by that same Way we come to Him. By this, Jesus’ Way, we experience both suffering and glory. In the cross we see a suffering God and behold glory in it. Jesus called the cross His glory; “take up your cross”.
25 And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” (Luke 24:25–25 ESV)
