Life & Laughter Chronicles

Written in 2024

This has been my pondered thought over the past week: vulnerability.

From the very beginning, starting at creation, God brought us into the world in the most vulnerable state—naked. God created us in vulnerability because we were designed to be vulnerable. Intimacy, and the experience of being deeply and fully known by our wonderful, loving God, requires it.

The reason we now live in a world where vulnerability feels hard, weak, out of control, and deeply uncomfortable is because of shame. When Adam and Eve were exposed to the evil of this world, they received clothing, and with that, the fall of generations began.

But even in that moment, God’s mercy covered their shame. He covered their most vulnerable state. And ever since, we—born into sin—have continued to add more and more layers of “clothing.”

Yet every day, when we choose to be vulnerable with God, when we take time to dwell with Him, we begin to remove those layers of shame. We begin to experience, in small glimpses, what it was like in the beginning, when flesh walked intimately with God in the garden, side by side.

We get to die to ourselves, refusing to let the enemy have a foothold in our sweet, vulnerable relationship with our Father.

This is a practice I’m learning, slowly understanding, day by day, one step at a time, as God reveals what that kind of holy vulnerability really looks like.