Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering.
Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it.
In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.
–Philip Yancey
If Jesus saw the necessity of “emptying Himself” and renouncing power to show His vulnerable love that absorbs our suffering, then I should attempt to do the same.
But it sure is hard to do.
“Father, help me to be vulnerable and loving towards others, so that I can work to absorb suffering, rather than inflict it through any use of power.”