4.8- Vulnerability heals.

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4.8-

Vulnerability heals.  The more we are real.  The more we are open about our wounds in life the more we make connections with Jesus Christ and others.  Our wound heal others as Christ wounds heal us.

1 Peter 2.
21 For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps, 22 who committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in His mouth; 23 [w]and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously; 24 and He Himself [x]bore our sins in His body on the [y]cross, so that we might die to [z]sin and live to righteousness; for by His [aa]wounds you were healed. 25 For you were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and [ab]Guardian of your souls.

There is this tendency for us to close up and put up shields around us when we are been hurt.  We can evolve into a place where we don't trust God and we don't trust others and we become isolated instead of connected.

Jesus suffered.  He was human and humans get hurt.  This is a part of normal life.  When we are willing to keep on following the purpose of God for our lives in spite of our hurt we are sustained by  God and we are loved by those who have been through hurt themselves.

Blood flowed out of his side on the cross.  That blood cleanses us from our sins.  This Blood is the basis of the song we grew up singing.  "What can wash away my sin, nothing but the blood of Jesus."

 When we are broken down and wounded, our shepherd comes and picks us up and carries us home.  Heaven is happy when we allow ourselves to be found and rescued by the Lord our Shepherd.

 After trusting Him over and over we learn that His heart is reliable.  No source is as steady and forever to pick us up in hard times as Jesus our Shepherd.

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