Quote from "With God in Solitary Confinement"

I just ordered this book from which this quotation comes. Can't wait to delve in!

"Have those who thought out these theological systems and wrote them down in such perfect order ever carried a cross?" He went on. "A man cannot think systematically even when he has a bad toothache. How can a man who is carrying a cross think systematically? But a Christian has to be more than the bearer of a heavy cross; he shares Christ's crucifixion. The pains of Christ are his, and the pains of all creation. There is no grief and no suffering in the whole world which should not grieve him also. If a man is crucified with Christ, how can he think systematically? Can there be that kind of thought on a cross?
Jesus Himself thought unsystematically on the cross. He began with forgiveness; He spoke of a paradise in which even a robber had a place; then He despaired that perhaps there might be no place in paradise even for Him, the Son of God. He felt Himself forsaken. His thirst was so unbearable that He asked for water. Then He surrendered His spirit into His Father's hand. But there followed no serenity, only a loud cry. Thank you for what you have been trying to teach me. I have the impression that you were only repeating, without much conviction, what others have taught you." (Pp. 120-123 in With God in Solitary Confinement by Richard Wurmbrand)

I cannot help but think and believe with every fiber of my being that this awakening that the Lord started here in Kansas City on November 11, 2009, which is spreading across the globe, where people's hearts are being set free, bodies are being healed, Salvations are happening, and Jesus is being glorified through it all, is a great preparation for what the Bride of Christ must be ready to face. We in the West need to be broken in the way this man, Richard Wurmbrand and many others like him, have been broken, so that we too can embrace a non-systematic theology that has as its sole passion intimacy with Jesus.