If we believe that Jesus is indeed God in human form, then the God we pray to is not a powerful God in the sense the world conceives of power. He is a God whose absolute might consists precisely in relinquishing all power: to share our common lot, to let us know, once and for all times, that He is neither wrathful nor absent. He is present with us, weak and frightened as we are. He goes into the darkness as we do, not knowing what awaits beyond.
This was the meaning of Jesus' ministry. He sealed it with his blood on the shameful, glorious cross. The double miracle of his self-emptying sacrifice and resurrection affirms an even deeper miracle: the fallen, broken world is the Kingdom of God's love.
If Christ is God, we are allowed to be human.
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