Beautiful in its time: The unsettling beauty of weakness in mission

God’s mission ( missio Dei) is the outworking of his image plan for his people and their redemption. In our need to connect with God and to reflect his image, God displays our dependency in the form of weakness-attraction before a watching world. In the words of Qohelet 3:11, each occasion in eternity is ‘beautiful in its time’ as are all God’s systems from creation. God intends to restore worship and fellowship with his image bearers in the Garden of Eden in the cool of the day (Gen 3:8).