We American Christians tend far too much to the idea that placing ourselves in God’s will leads surely to the fulfillment of our (all too bourgeois) desires for this life: good job; good income; good family; good home; and the like. We neglect – even reject! – that when Christ placed himself squarely in God’s will it led to his crucifixion. “Not my will but thine be done.” We talk and preach of Jesus of Nazareth, God’s Christ, crucified and raised for us. Yet we live as if the cross were almost accidental to Christianity, as if it were actually incidental to Christian existence. Far from that, the cross is essential to Christianity and ineluctably fundamental to true Christian existence. The inevitable point at which God’s love and this world intersect is the cross. It is there that we find Jesus Christ, or we find him not at all.
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