Glorious Weakness Discovering God in All We Lack by Alia Joy - Baker Books

Glorious Weakness Discovering God in All We Lack by Alia Joy - Baker Books

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If you have suffered, it is impossible not to have empathy for Alia, you feel she just understands. You just wish you can know her and hug her and help. But you know you can not help, and she can not help you... only God can, she knows that for sure, so will you. But oh! how much hope and relief you feel while you read and cry. What she has is a gift, to put into words with such musicality and cadence in a beautiful way the most painful parts of her life... and what it is to come. This book is a plain reality in this fallen world and complete hope in what is to come. You just don´t get why some people get so much pain, tears, and brokenness. And then every time you turn the page, you get it, their soul turns more beautiful each time.  The book is divided into 4: Weakness, Hope, Strenght, and Glory. It is such a beautiful book you just want to highlight all. Capture all. Quote it all. I highly recommend this reading not just for the one who suffers, but for the one who wants to try and understand who is in deep pain.

Some quotes you may like or find compelling:

• “Weakness is a holy invitation to allow grace to do its work.”

• “My deficiency was the strongest thing about me because God was fully present in my lack.”

• “Ordinary life has been the hardest calling I’ve ever answered, the hardest thing to bear witness to, because who could possibly care about the mundane and ordinary life? I had no idea the depths of my own selfishness until asked to share myself with my family. To lay my will down day after day and seek God’s.”

• “We’ve valued one side of the equation and not the other because we don’t imagine the poor have anything to teach us about God. We go with our gospel but don’t always understand grace. We are not students of the poor, the weak, the broken, the outside, or the other. We don’t learn from the margins, we still esteem power and success and skill.”

• “We’ve valued one side of the equation and not the other because we don’t imagine the poor have anything to teach us about God. We go with our gospel but don’t always understand grace. We are not students of the poor, the weak, the broken, the outside, or the other. We don’t learn from the margins, we still esteem power and success and skill.”

• “What the world desperately needs is a church that looks more like Christ and less like a parody of how to be respectable, comfortable, and safe.” 

• “Our need might be the thing that most blesses the body of Christ.” 

• “My saltwater tears have mixed with the ash from the Refiner’s fire, and they form the ink to pen my story, a story that helps me find my way to the beauty that was always buried and waiting.” 

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Description

As a girl, Alia Joy came face to face with weakness, poverty, and loss in ways that made her doubt God was good. There were times when it felt as if God had abandoned her. What she didn't realize then was that God was always there, calling her to abandon herself.

In this deeply personal exploration of what it means to be "poor in spirit," Joy challenges our cultural proclivity to "pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps." She calls on readers to embrace true vulnerability and authenticity with God and with one another, showing how weakness does not disqualify us from inclusion in the kingdom of God--instead, it is our very invitation to enter in.

Anyone who has struggled with feeling inadequate, disillusioned, or just too broken will find hope. This message is an antidote to despair, helping readers reclaim the ways God is good, even when life is anything but.

Publish date: 2 abril 2019