September 26, 2026
Connected with God
This is the mystery of the Christian life. It is not that God came to take our burden away or to take our cross away or to take our agony away. No. God came to invite us to connect our burden with God’s burden, to connect our suffering with God’s suffering, to connect our pain to God’s pain.
The great invitation of the Christian life is to live a life of connectedness with the Son of God who died broken. It is an invitation to dare to live connected to God who wants to give us his burden as a light burden because it is a burden that God has already carried for us.
There is more. Not only is God compassionate with us, but we have to be willing to be compassionate with God. We have to compati with God. Compati is Latin for “suffer with” – we need to suffer with God.
Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were - happening to you.
- 1 Peter 4: 12
Reflection Question: How might you experience suffering with God today?
