My prayers can also become yours.
The groanings, pleas and heart aches of mine are yours;
For your hearts as they learn the same things. We're all in this together.
Vulnerability:
There was a price to be one with me.
He has become sin to know me like He does
He has opened up Himself in every way with stunning vulnerability
The perfect Father, sent His Son so that He could be IN us.
Giving up all heavenly glory, to be laid low, just to be intimate with us; to be IN us and us IN Him. Ephesians 1:13, 14, Ephesians 2:4-7
He could have kept Himself from the evil of this world and the darkness so that He could remain pure, spotless and Holy unspotted by the taintedness of our world but He came still perfectly pure, spotless and holy into our time, our worldly sphere just to be ONE with us
He has let me ( ugly, bruised, defiled sinful woman) to become One with HIM who is perfect in every way with perfect love
He risked me saying no. He laid His glory aside to open up to a sinner, so that I could gain everything of His.
What is this vulnerability that astounds me? He chose to be everything He hated to let us become apart of Him. He set us free through this kind of vulnerability, He is exalted at the right hand of God the Father with nothing lost and everything gained because of this kind of vulnerability.
How does this leave me?
So hopeful in unveiling my heart.
So hopeful that because of Him and His vulnerability to me (through it being made one in Him), I can do this too.
who am I that thinks I am too pure and holy to let tainted and marred loves love me?
Have I done something so special that deserves to be loved perfectly by people who will never achieve perfection in this lifetime?
Oh wow the entitlement I have falsely claimed.
My heart has so been hardened to flawed love that tries to love and lead me because I have expected them to love me like Jesus; perfectly, pure and holy.
No Jesus. No more walls. No more heart of stone. My heart is blossoming, it is opening, as you teach me.
Jesus, you are my only hope to be loved perfectly. You are my only hope to true love and perfect intimacy. I expect it all from you as I release the grip of expectation I have had on others.
It's all only about me and You, You and me on this love journey; leading me into greater and greater intimacy.
How can I not open up and let love in when you tell me how you have loved me?
The only thing that matters, that ever will, is the extent to how much YOU love me, not how others will hurt or disappoint me.
I could keep closed, bound by fear and be safe the rest of my life, no danger near me, no hurt or pain.
But all you say is "I LOVE YOU" and my heart WANTS to open up, it knows it's so secure in love, it knows it has and will not ever be disappointed and rejected, hurt or abandoned again because I have found perfect love and He has already come for me. He has committed to me and will soon marry me. He HAS committed.
My hope is in no other.
intimacy; vulnerability has made a way for us.
" A woman who is unveiling her beauty is inviting others to life. She risks being vulnerable, exposing her true heart and inviting others to share theirs. She is not demanding but is hopeful." - Stasi Eldridge- captivating
"Look at me, I'm a new femininity, blossoming.
Going deeper into love, at rest in new trust and security.
A new heart open to change, hurt or tragedy, because I am free in Love and everything He makes me.
Love, it loves all the way through, we just want You, we just want You."
-Kayla knapp
