It's OK to be vulnerable with Jesus

Christ offers us life.  Christ offers us meaning and purpose to all we do.  He calls us each to holiness just as He called millions before us.  When we accept His invitation, we find true joy in simply living.  The modern world has lost sight of what it means to live.  We are told that there is a certain way to live, that we need to be secure in ourselves, our possessions, and our livelihood.  The world teaches us to look out for ourselves.  But none of that satisfies.  We have become so focused on this earthly way of living that we have forgotten what it means to be intimate with one another.  Words like love, friendship, marriage, and relationship have such a shallow connotation today because we have lost sight of intimacy.  Many Catholics (and other Christians) would not describe their relationship with the Lord as being intimate, yet if it is not intimate, then all is lost.  If we cannot be intimate with Christ and share our deepest thoughts and desires with Him, then who can we be intimate with?

 

St. Paul, in his letter to the Hebrews (Hebrews 12:1-43), calls us to keep "our eyes fixed on Jesus, the leader and perfecter of faith." It makes sense, then, to go directly to Jesus in matters of faith. Since faith is a gift from God, we can simply ask Jesus for more faith. If we truly want it, He will not refuse us. This is what the hemorrhaging woman in the Gospel teaches us. (Mark 5:21-43)  It’s okay to be vulnerable with Jesus, to let Him see us in our weaknesses.  Only then can He make us whole.  Only then will we discover the true joy in living every day.