Therefore, I am content with weakness, insults, hardships, persecutions and constraints for the sake of Christ; for when I am weak , then I am strong. 2 Cor 12:10
Paul continues to juxtapose his boasting which is in his weakness and affliction with that of the "super-apostles" who have worked their way into his community.
It's the "for the sake of" part that both troubles me and offers intelligibility. How does that work? Have I ever been able to be content under any of those five conditions? And if I have or if I could, it would have to be for the sake of something completely life giving.
When I find myself weak and not up to the task before me, or when I am thwarted in my efforts to go where I feel called, maybe that's the place where I can be in communion with the weak and literally constrained suffering Christ. But that communion is not just mine. I have to spend it somehow for others a la Jesus. I'm not sure at all what that looks like. But it does sounds good and true. I pray someday to be able to witness more clearly...to be able to witness a la Paul.
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