The history of our salvation is the story of a supreme abasement:
the divine becomes human,
the celestial becomes terrestrial,
the eternal becomes temporal,
the absolute becomes fragile,
the wisdom of God becomes madness,
and his strength becomes weakness—
because Life, the true Life, is humbled to death, death on a cross.
To follow Jesus is to follow his abasement—to come, as he did, to the bottom of humanity, of our weakness, and there to become a servant, as the One who did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for all.
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