# 4 Devil's Lie

Devils Lie # 3. "Vulnerability Is Weakness"

I come from a family that was severely impoverished. A PTSD father, just home from WW II, was set on hiding the war related nightmares in alcohol, created a dysfunctional family environment. Publicly we were ridiculed and bullied by the more affluent children in our community. Behind closed doors we seemed to be a sim-functional put together family until the bottle came out and Dad relapsed into the Normandy Invasion or any of his other military engagements. Then, family cohesiveness crashed. Then, behind closed doors, it was a knock-down-drag-out WWII reenactment. Being open about our feelings and thoughts was not something encouraged, but more so ridiculed. So, I learned to bottle things up and all the pain that I was carrying manifested in different ways (i.e anger, low self-esteem and people-pleasing, etc). I became a child of pending adult disaster as did my siblings. The high in our life was residual and insufficient to fill that emptiness that we experienced. Adult hood requires a strong determination to over come the vulnerability of submissive pressure to give up and live out a sedate life. Most of us (13 in total) finished college and have respectable and pretentious lives. We are not alone in this devil’s lie that because he has us vulnerable we are too week to overcome. We were not alone.

So many abused, confused and self abated folks around broken because they allow the hurt or disillusionment from a situation to close our hearts. We must be careful to override Satan’s implanted thinking that we must whine and accept the situation he has led us into. We must keep a positive attitude when we define who God is and what He can do. Not to say that the stings of those life altering experiences don’t hurt, but there really comes a point where we need to “let go and let God”. There comes a point where we have camped out in the land of feeling deceived, grief and disappointment for too long. We must trust that God can give us the strength and faith to move on. We need to trust that he can set us free and fill our empty spaces with healing. We must know that, in the end, our relationship is all that matters. Satan concocts lies to make us think differently. We can pursue his implanted thoughts but they will always lead to painful conclusions. Don’t be too week to talk to God. Don’t be afraid to open up to God’s chosen ministers; don’t be too week!

Just another big lie of satan. He deceives us into believing that if we open up and talk about our issues we will be met with judgment, criticism and suffer shame. However, the truth is vulnerability in the right hands will always lead you to your freedom. Vulnerability is the doorway to deep intimacy with God. Know God, know peace 01-25-2019 BLL