{"id":4573,"date":"2019-09-30T03:46:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/unravelling-the-mystery-of-weakness-and-strength\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:46:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:37","slug":"unravelling-the-mystery-of-weakness-and-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/unravelling-the-mystery-of-weakness-and-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"Unravelling the Mystery of Weakness and Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The key to the mystery of strength in weakness is the Cross of Christ.  We are not fatalistic.  Life has a paradoxical doubleness to it.<\/p>\n<p>Three varieties of weakness:<\/p>\n<p>  1. Weakness of being second fiddle.  Servanthood.<br \/>\n  2. Weakness of being creatures.<br \/>\n  3. Weakness of sin and its effects.  We do not have to accept the &#8220;dark side.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Strength comes from the attitude, &#8220;Thy will be done.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The key to the mystery of strength in weakness is the Cross of Christ. We are not fatalistic. Life has a paradoxical doubleness to it. Three varieties of weakness: 1. Weakness of being second fiddle. Servanthood. 2. Weakness of being creatures. 3. Weakness of sin and its effects. We do not have to accept the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[92,1535,3949,1847,657,434,1543,474,1268],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}