What if the only thing seperating us and God was a door?
On the other side is a cozy chamber prepared for intimacy and unveiling. A place so ambient that vulnerability is not merely a question, but a sure-sounding whisper of intent. Every day you and I face this door. Are we willing to lay aside our offenses and defenses before we approach intimacy with our beloved? How many times has the lover of our souls looked beyond our fear and our pain and invited us anyways? He already knows we will walk in laden with armor and bleeding from our battle wounds. Will you let him strip away your walls of armor, get close to your wounds, and heal your broken soul?
Men: Are you willing to lay aside your pride, reputation, and image to be with your King? Will you allow yourself to become emotionally attached to your Maker? Will you allow your Maker to stir your heart with a passion that surely causes a man to kneel as great floods of emotion run over him resulting in tears, laughter, moaning, or some outward expression of emotion?
Women: Are you willing to put down your walls and allow him to take care of your heart? Might you consider that God is trustworthy enough to care for you in your vulnerability? That maybe he never intended for your heart to be as broken as it is? That maybe he is so in love with you that he desires for you to be satisfied and fulfilled as a woman?
Jesus is the man that made all of these things possible. Because God didn't want a door to seperate us, he sent His son, Jesus, to open that door to us that we may come before God boldly. God does desire every one of these thing for us, therefore we must only be willing to be vulnerable enough before him so that he can lift us from the despair we live in.
This is why we must work out our salvation with fear and trembling, because salvation is not an event, it is a relationship in which God takes us in our vulnerability and shows us the things that are hurting us and helps us to be free of them. Even if we think these things are who we are, we must be vulnerable enough to trust our Maker when he says it is not who we are. If Christ came to give life more abundantly, while we are in the arms of God, we must be willing to allow Him to show us the things we do to hurt ourselves, and then do whatever it takes to rid ourselves of them.
God will not force you to be vulnerable with Him. He will allow you to get as close as you want or to get as far away as you want. However, the closer you get, the more abundant life becomes.
If you could be free, would you want to be?
