He came to us weak and vulnerable. He was born in a borrowed room, to parents away from their home. He loves us so much he came to us as one of us: the Word became flesh and dwelled among us. He called us his friends. He made our home his home. Our hearts became his room. His weakness and vulnerability calls to our weakness and vulnerability.
He knows what it is to be human. He chose to become human. He chose to find and experience every emotion known to humanity; he chose to experience it all, in its full force. He chose to join us in our joys and our sorrows, our hopes and our heartaches, our glories and our grief. He did it all because of love.
As someone once put it, “all God’s giants have been weak men.†God himself became weak so that we might be strong, he became poor so we might be rich, he died so we might live, he loved us so we might know love.
God so loved the world, so loved you and me that he gave his only Son so that whoever believes in him might not die but have eternal life. From his weakness and vulnerability he brings healing, hope and wholeness. He is the river of life, who makes the lame to walk, the blind to see, opens prison doors and sets the captives free.
Born in a world where his freedom was temporal, he offers real and eternal freedom to everyone. In a world that says acceptance comes with beauty and status, he doesn’t demand anything, but that we come to him as he came to us: weak and vulnerable. All he asks is that we come, just as we are.
Just as I am – without one plea
But that Thy blood was shed for me,
And that Thou bidd’st me come to Thee
O Lamb of God, I come.
Just as I am – poor, wretched, blind;
Sight, riches, healing of the mind,
Yea, all I need in Thee I find,
O Lamb of God, I come.
