When talking #ECDO with friends, I found it's hard (I'm bad) at describing exactly what pole motion & polhode are; whilst "a curve produced by the angular velocity vector on the inertia ellipsoid" is correct, it doesn't get the point across to the unfamiliar. So I created this.
I used to think Jesus couldn't be God because He didn't fight back.
Arrested. Mocked. Beaten. Crucified. And He just took it.
I thought, "Where's the power in that?"
Then I realized something that shattered me:
Jesus wasn't refusing to fight because He was weak. He was refusing to fight because He was dying for us.
It's like asking why a father doesn't strike back when his hurting child lashes out at him.
Love doesn't always defend itself. Sometimes it absorbs the blow to heal the one causing it.
Islam taught me that strength was domination. The cross taught me that strength is restraint.
Real power is having the ability to destroy and choosing to forgive instead.
Jesus wasn't a victim.
He predicted His own death.
Walked straight toward it.
Held back legions of angels.
And chose the cross anyway.
"No one takes my life from me, but I lay it down of my own accord." (John 10:18)
That's not weakness.
That's a King so committed to saving His enemies that He willingly suffered for them.
Jesus didn't fight for a crown. He took a cross to win the war forever.
He wasn't proving He was God by destroying His enemies.
He was proving how far God would go to save them.
That's not weakness. That's how heaven wins.
@babaisback55 Matthew 11:29-30 ESV
[29] Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. [30] For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”