Written by: Erica Campbell<\/p>\n
I had a conversation with a woman, very dear to me, who has walked through incredible emotional hardship. Over the course of her life, she has experienced rejection from her father initially, then from within her family, others, and finally from her own husband\u2014the last of which is most painful for her. Despite her brokenness, this woman is stronger than she realizes. Of course, some days challenge her so much that she\u2019d rather just give up, but somehow, she finds the strength to carry on as she awaits a miracle of restoration in her family and in her marriage.<\/p>\n
Recently, she was asked to share her story at a women\u2019s event. But for many reasons felt unworthy of such an opportunity. When she told me how she was feeling, it hurt me that she\u2019d believe this about herself. In my eyes, she\u2019s the exact type of woman who should<\/em> be sharing her story\u2014someone who\u2019s walked through the fire again and again but still chooses to call on God. The enemy, however, would like nothing better than to convince her that she has nothing valuable to share. He\u2019d prefer to hold her imperfections and flaws over her head and keep her quiet. Knowing the lie she was believing, I encouraged her to seize this moment and share exactly what God has done in her life.<\/p>\n This moment was so crucial because God uses women with vulnerable hearts to help set other broken hearts free. Vulnerability is key in God\u2019s inner transforming work; it forces us to grapple with our limits, feel the gravity of our mistakes, and in complete reliance turn to our only true source of hope: our Father in heaven. In our culture, however, vulnerability is portrayed as weakness. As such, we\u2019re trained to hide it from others. In 2 Corinthians 12:9, Jesus tells Paul in the moment of his greatest vulnerability, \u201cMy grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.\u201d Upon hearing this, Paul responded by telling the Corinthian church, \u201cTherefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ\u2019s power may rest on me.\u201d<\/p>\n When we overcome the world\u2019s false perspective of weakness and see things through the lens of Christ\u2019s Kingdom, we realize that it is to our benefit and to the benefit of those around us to own<\/em> our vulnerability. When we do\u2014and especially when we share it as part of our testimony\u2014God uses the hard circumstances of our lives for His glory. Places that have wounded, broken, disappointed, and rejected us can become places where Jesus stands on our behalf and magnifies His name, while simultaneously restoring us. Thus, learning to be vulnerable is a beautiful, necessary, brave thing\u2014the fundamental opposite of weakness.<\/p>\n So, let\u2019s resist the enemy who tells us we should shut all our hurts, pain, and mistakes behind closed doors. Let\u2019s expose his lies by boasting in our weaknesses, knowing that is when we offer Jesus the surest platform upon which He can display His power through us. As one of my favorite writers, Ann Voskamp, says, \u201cThe world has enough people who live a masked insecurity. It needs more who live a brave vulnerability.\u201d<\/p>\n So, again I say, let\u2019s resist. Instead of hiding, let\u2019s choose, as Paul says in 2 Corinthians 12:10, to \u201cdelight in our weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when we are weak, then we are strong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[757,1,37],"tags":[749,16,374,1022,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-3978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allgenerations","8":"category-general","9":"category-womens-ministries","10":"tag-749","11":"tag-discipleship","12":"tag-erica-campbell","13":"tag-strength","14":"tag-women","15":"entry"},"title_es":"Valiente vulnerabilidad","content_es":"Escrito por: Erica Campbell Tuve una conversaci\u00f3n con una mujer, muy querida para m\u00ed, que ha atravesado dificultades emocionales incre\u00edbles. A lo largo de su vida, ha experimentado el rechazo de su padre inicialmente, luego de parte de su familia, de otros y, finalmente, de su propio marido, el \u00faltimo de los cuales es muy doloroso para ella. A pesar de su quebrantamiento, esta mujer es m\u00e1s fuerte de lo que cree. Por supuesto, algunos d\u00edas la desaf\u00edan tanto que preferir\u00eda simplemente darse por vencida, pero de alguna manera, encuentra la fuerza para continuar mientras espera un milagro de restauraci\u00f3n en su familia y en su matrimonio. Recientemente, se le pidi\u00f3 que compartiera su historia en un evento para mujeres. Pero por muchas razones se sinti\u00f3 indigno de tal oportunidad. Cuando ella me cont\u00f3 c\u00f3mo se sent\u00eda, me doli\u00f3 que ella creyera esto sobre s\u00ed misma. En mi opini\u00f3n, ella es el tipo exacto de mujer que deber\u00eda<\/em> estar compartiendo su historia, alguien que ha caminado por el fuego una y otra vez, pero todav\u00eda elige invocar a Dios. Sin embargo, al enemigo no le gustar\u00eda nada m\u00e1s que convencerla de que no tiene nada valioso que compartir. \u00c9l preferir\u00eda mantener sus imperfecciones y defectos sobre su cabeza y mantenerla en silencio. Al conocer la mentira que ella estaba creyendo, la alent\u00e9 a aprovechar este momento y compartir exactamente lo que Dios ha hecho en su vida. Este momento fue tan crucial porque Dios usa mujeres con corazones vulnerables para ayudar a liberar otros corazones rotos. La vulnerabilidad es clave en el trabajo transformador interno de Dios; nos obliga a lidiar con nuestros l\u00edmites, sentir la gravedad de nuestros errores y, con total confianza, recurrir a nuestra \u00fanica fuente verdadera de esperanza: nuestro Padre en el cielo. En nuestra cultura, sin embargo, la vulnerabilidad se describe como debilidad. Como tal, estamos entrenados para esconderlo de los dem\u00e1s. En 2 Corintios 12: 9, Jes\u00fas le dice a Pablo en el momento de su mayor vulnerabilidad, \"B\u00e1state mi gracia, porque mi poder se perfecciona en la debilidad\". Al escuchar esto, Pablo respondi\u00f3 dici\u00e9ndole a la iglesia de Corinto: \"Por lo tanto, , Me jactar\u00e9 m\u00e1s alegremente de mis debilidades, para que el poder de Cristo descanse sobre m\u00ed. \"Cuando superamos la falsa perspectiva de debilidad del mundo y vemos las cosas a trav\u00e9s de la lente del Reino de Cristo, nos damos cuenta de que es para nuestro beneficio y en beneficio de quienes nos rodean para ser due\u00f1os de<\/em> nuestra vulnerabilidad. Cuando lo hacemos, y especialmente cuando lo compartimos como parte de nuestro testimonio, Dios usa las circunstancias dif\u00edciles de nuestras vidas para su gloria. Los lugares que nos han herido, roto, decepcionado y rechazado pueden convertirse en lugares donde Jes\u00fas se pone de nuestro lado y magnifica Su nombre, al mismo tiempo que nos restaura. Por lo tanto, aprender a ser vulnerable es algo bello, necesario y valiente, el opuesto fundamental de la debilidad. Entonces, resistamos al enemigo que nos dice que debemos cerrar todas nuestras heridas, dolor y errores a puertas cerradas. Expongamos sus mentiras alardeando de nuestras debilidades, sabiendo que es cuando le ofrecemos a Jes\u00fas la plataforma m\u00e1s segura sobre la cual \u00c9l puede mostrar Su poder a trav\u00e9s de nosotros. Como una de mis escritoras favoritas, Ann Voskamp, \u200b\u200bdice: \"El mundo tiene suficientes personas que viven en una inseguridad enmascarada. Necesita m\u00e1s que viva una valiente vulnerabilidad. \"As\u00ed que, nuevamente digo, resistamos. En lugar de escondernos, escojamos, como dice Pablo en 2 Corintios 12:10, \"deleitarnos en nuestras debilidades, en insultos, en dificultades, en persecuciones, en dificultades\". 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