Vulnerability

Understanding Vulnerability: The key to vulnerability starts at an individual's understanding of the importance of vulnerability. For many Christians, Vulnerability is not necessarily a requirement for their walk. Maintaining God as Lord is something we crave by nature of the relationship. We want to lose responsibility for our hardest burdens and we want God to answer our prayers within moments of a prayer being prayed. However, receiving God as your father, which is the nature of Christianity, can be hard for people to fully engage in this relationship, when they don’t understand the need for vulnerability in the relationship. It's important that the nature of this relationship between God and us as Christians is viewed as a parent child relationship. 1John chapter 3 verse 1-2 says,” Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 2Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; The for we shall see him as he is.”(cite here). Although many scriptures emphasize the paternal nature of our relationship, there seems to be a lingering trend throughout the lives of many Christians that causes people to hide their flaws from God like they do their earthly parents. However our emotional relatability with our parents will be the same emotional relatable we initially have with God. In general Vulnerability expert, Brené Brown says, “Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.”(Brown, 2010)