[NorthMountain]

Even among those who acknowledge the deity of Christ there is often a failure to recognize His manhood. We are quick to assert that when He walked the earth He was God with men, but we overlook a truth equally as important, that where He sits now on His mediatorial throne He is Man with God.

This, right here, is IMO the great "scandal" of Christianity; THIS is the foolishness to gentiles and stumbling block to Jews. Christ crucified was Man crucified and GOD crucified. Man died. God DIED! How can this even be? We accept it by faith. We can read it in the Scriptures, use words to state the facts, but truly comprehending it is beyond human understanding.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The suffering Savior speaks when you know you have done something wrong. This is where the love attitude is crucial to taking it the right way. Love tells you that the Lord bore the burden, now don’t worry about how it made you look, rather be very thankful for the undeserved help and crave better things to be expressed through your life. Pride tells you that you had better try to independently think your way past the issue, and so you might go study the bible without coming within a mile of the Lord.