Often, we hear God’s call to embrace our weakness or move in sacrificial love and we imagine that ultimately this will result in our heroism—overcoming all odds and becoming powerful. In other words, we imagine that Jesus has just given us a more surprising and challenging way to achieve power and success. We still believe we will get what others want, but the difference is that we will go about it “in the right way.” This is simply not what Jesus tells us. Embracing the way from above is often a hard and lonely road, but it is the true path of
