Vulnerable before god

“Each one should test their own actions.” (Galatians 6:4)
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Blame is defined as assigning responsibility for a wrong. Brene Brown characterized blame as “discharging our comfort and pain,” or discharging our disappointment and anger on to another. Blame is the opposite of accountability. Taking responsibility would require us to be courageously vulnerable and that takes work and time. Blaming is a quick and easy way to divert responsibility. 

Adam provided our first example of blame in the Garden of Eden. Unable to carry the burden of his pain and disappointment in self for transgressing God’s law, he blamed Eve, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree I ate.” (Genesis 3:12)
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Esau blamed his brother, Jacob when, although deceptively, he took his birthright. The pain of the loss was so great that he pleaded earnestly with his father for a blessing of equal weight, knowing that it was futile. Prior to this, his state of futility caused him to cry out, “He took away my birthright, behold now he took away my blessing.” (Genesis 27:36b)

We know that we are in right standing with God when we can assume responsibility and hold ourselves accountable for our own decisions. The day we committed our lives to the Lord was the day we allowed ourselves to be naked and vulnerable before the living God.
It will require this same level of vulnerability in serving God until we leave this earth. We must be emotionally and physically exposed, and surrendered before God. 

“And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.” (Hebrews 4:13)

Spurgeon contended that blame constrains us and holds us back from entering into fellowship with God. “He does it of his own will; no one constrains him. You know that, when after a sermon you say, "I do not care about believing in Christ," you say it yourself-You are quite conscious of it, and if not conscious of it, it is notwithstanding a dreadful fact, that the reason why you are what you are, is because you will to be what you are. It is your own will that keeps you where you are, the blame lies at your own door, your being still in a state of sin is voluntary. You are a captive, but you are a voluntary captive.”

We rejoice today because we are free and exposed before God. Because we are vulnerable before Him we can tell on ourselves and tell him all about it, holding back nothing, zealously like Peter, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.” (John 13:9)

How refreshing it is to be vulnerable and free in the Lord, “For my power is made perfect in weakness.” (2 Corinthians 12:9). 
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GiGi❤️

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