Vulnerability is most often considered a bad thing. So it is counterintuitive to think of harnessing it for good. An yet, vulnerability is actually the gateway to joy. But it is an all or nothing proposition!

You Need Help (ok, “We” Need Help)

What do you mean “I” need help? How dare you say that to me! With everything you have going on? I don’t need help. You had better not use the word “you” in sentence towards me. You know how much stuff you need to work on yourself? You need to back off! YOU are the one that needs help.

Have you ever had those thoughts running through your head? Statements like these are defense mechanisms. We all get defensive at times. Perhaps not visibly but at least internally. The struggle is real.

If We Were a Computer

Let’s say we are a brand new computer. We do our thing and do it well. And then one day, we meet someone and trust them a little too much. Bam! They infect us with a virus. At that point we are in trouble…

Life is like this. We need some hero with super powers to take ultimate control from the outside. But that would take ultimate vulnerability. And yet, the truth is that we were already vulnerable to some extent or we never would have contracted the virus in the first place. We knowingly and unknowingly go places where bad things can happen. We make bad decisions. Here comes the scary irony –  if we want to be free of this dilemma, we are going to have to get even more vulnerable for a while in order to fix the problem. Life cannot go on as it is.

Dealing with Our Vulnerability

We need a trustworthy, more powerful tool to find and remove the virus. The hope is that our superhero can find the culprit that plagues us and remove it without corrupting all of our data. For the Christian, the ultimate virus removal tool is Jesus Christ. God reaching down to walk among us so that our virus could be removed. All we have to do is believe in him and accept what he has to offer. That takes ultimate vulnerability. But peace and eternal life are the reward!