LOVE makes you VULNERABLE

Love makes you Vulnerable

 

Love always makes you vulnerable. There is no way you can love and not expose yourself in some way or give something up.

 

God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners (Romans 5:8). There is a death in love, and that death is the death of self. Jesus Christ died to love us, and that death is the death of self. Jesus died to love us; we die as well in order to love and serve others. And part of that is in being vulnerable.

 

Sometimes the best thing we can do for someone is ask for help. Jesus said "Please give me a drink"(John 4:7). Jesus asked the woman for a drink and three years later, he was asking the same thing from the cross - symbolic of the vulnerability he placed Himself into for the whole human race. Being vulnerable to those you love is the big part of love itself.

 

~ Developed from words of John Fischer, Saddleback church dated Jan. 20, 2005