In Theology of the Event, a book published a number of years ago, theologian John Caputo sets forth what he terms the "weakness" of God.  It's an intriguing proposition:  can God be weak?  According to Caputo, yes, God can be weak.  God is weak because unlike the God of orthodox Christianity, God is not apart from the events of the world, nor does he guide or grant purpose to the events of the world.  Instead, God is an event; he is not a being.  God is an integral part of the fabric of this reality, as subject to chance and circumstance as much as anyone and anything else.
     This is a powerful thesis.  Given that in our cause and effect universe every event is merely a prelude to another one and therefore an open book, its effects ever subject to alteration and change, it means that God as event means a God who is no more than another flash of activity in an evanescent and dying world.  He is nothing more than the next thing, no more than the next random twist of matter and time.
     In order to mean anything to us personally, however, God must be more than event.  He must be a person, a person with individuality and purpose.  Otherwise, we may as well put our trust in a slab of granite.
     On the other hand, quite apart from Caputo's assertion, God did, at one time, become weak.  Although he is the creator of the universe, at one point in history, God, the strongest of all beings, became weak, as weak as you and me.  He became a human being.  Though he remained God, a personal being, God became an event, an event of weakness that rocked the world.
     But it was precisely in his weakness that this God, unlike Caputo's God, subservient to and defined by event, displayed his strength.  Because God in his strength--the strength of cosmic supremacy--became, in the person of Jesus Christ, weak, God demonstrated that strength is ultimately the servant of weakness, and that it would be in weakness--a weakness of, oddly enough, strength, the strength of one who chooses to be weak--that he would make himself fully known.
     And in this was the greatest event of all time.