Scripture
Anyone who claims to know all the answers doesn’t really know very much. But the person who loves God is the one whom God recognizes. 1 Cor 8:4

Observation
When I am afraid, I over-inform. It’s a pattern I see in my life. It isn’t good. It isn’t God. It isn’t useful to others. It isn’t attractive to him.

There is another path to follow. Less information and more love. Love is usually the last thing to use in times of fear. Love creates vulnerabilities. It is given from the heart and the only way it can be given is to open the heart, even just for a moment. That’s why we are cautious with love until conditions are right.

But here is the point: love anyway. When afraid don’t turn to the force fields we’ve learned to put up when afraid so we won’t be more vulnerable. Mine is over information. Yours may be something else. Hang ups. We all have them. But we can step beyond them.

Why would I risk vulnerability to love God? Because even if I am taken advantage of, I still have gained the favor of God. “The person who loves God is the one whom God recognizes.” To be the center of God’s attention should be the object of my life.

Application
There is a fear to open the screen door on a hot summer’s night. Mosquitos may come in while the door is open. But that is the risk of opening the heart. Yet there is a greater risk. That is to not open the door and so to miss God coming inside to be with me. Love is worth risks.

Prayer
Father, help me to love as Christ does. His vulnerability on the cross with the thieves is his shining moment. He felt forsaken by you, but he was the center of your attention as Easter Sunday proves. When I love please show up. Amen.