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Breaking the Silence on a Vulnerable God

A Voice in the Wilderness – Episode 6: A Vulnerable God

There’s a silence beneath our faith—

not loud, but shaping everything we believe.
A silence around one question:
Does God truly feel?

We speak of His power and holiness,
but rarely His tenderness.
Somewhere we learned to equate strength with distance
and vulnerability with weakness.

But what if God’s greatest strength
is His willingness to be close?
Because love that cannot be wounded cannot truly connect.

The God Who Feels

Many of us grew up with a powerful but untouchable God.
We heard of His greatness, not His gentleness.
His glory, not His grief.
And quietly, we assumed:
“God doesn’t feel the way we feel.”Yet Scripture reveals the opposite:

“The LORD was grieved… His heart was filled with pain.” – Genesis 6:6
“My heart churns within Me.” – Hosea 11:8
“In all their affliction, He was afflicted.” – Isaiah 63:9

This is not metaphor—this is revelation.
A God whose heart aches, hopes, and feels.

A Father’s Heart

A father once told me through tears about his runaway daughter:
“I’d rather she scream at me than stay silent.
Silence means she doesn’t trust me anymore.”

He wasn’t weak—he was loving.
Because real love is always vulnerable.
You cannot love and stay untouched by pain.

The Cross: God Without Armour

Some think God only became vulnerable when Jesus became human.
But Jesus said, “If you’ve seen Me, you’ve seen the Father.”

Everything tender and compassionate in Jesus
was already true of the Father.

The Cross wasn’t a transaction—it was exposure.
It was love without armour—
the heart of God uncovered for all to see.

What It Means for You

If God is vulnerable, then you can be honest.

He doesn’t withdraw when you fail.
He doesn’t retreat when you doubt.
He stays open—always reaching, always hoping.

A vulnerable God is safe enough
for your real self—no masks, no performance.

Just you… and Him.

Come Home

Maybe you’ve believed God was too holy to feel your pain.
But what if He’s been grieving with you all along?

This is the God who lets His heart break
so yours can heal.
Who opens Himself to rejection
just for the chance to hold you again.

A vulnerable God is a God worth coming home to.

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A Voice in the Wilderness: Divine Justice - Breaking the Silence on Crisis Judgment and Eternal Justice

Many believers wrestle with the tension between a God of love and the stories of judgment in Scripture. The Flood, Sodom, Jericho, the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70—these crisis moments often shape our view of God’s character more than the picture Jesus reveals.

Today, we are breaking the silence on crisis judgment and eternal justice.

Crisis Judgment: God Acting in Human Emergency - Crisis judgment is not God’s eternal identity—it’s His protective intervention when sin is destroying life beyond repair. These moments reflect crisis love, not retributive anger.

Stories like the Flood, Jericho, and AD 70 show God stepping in when humanity reaches a point of no return.

Eternal Justice: God’s True Character Revealed in Jesus - Eternal justice is seen at the cross, where God absorbs human violence instead of returning it. Here, Jesus reveals the Father-heart of God—a justice that heals, restores, and unmasks sin. Eternal justice is God’s identity; crisis judgment is His response to a crisis.

Why This Matters - When we confuse crisis judgment with eternal justice, we often fear God instead of trusting Him. But Jesus shows that God is restorative, not retributive; relational, not punitive.

Crisis judgment shows what sin does.

The cross shows what God is like.

Reflection Questions

1. Where have I confused crisis judgment with God’s eternal justice?
2. How does the cross reshape my picture of divine justice?
3. Which Old Testament story do I need to reread through the Father-heart lens?

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A Voice in the Wilderness — Episode Blog

There’s a silence beneath many people’s faith—
a quiet uncertainty about who God actually is.

Scripture gives Him many titles:
Judge, King, Shepherd, Creator, Warrior.
But titles alone can leave us wondering:

“Which one is God really?
How do these roles fit together?”

This episode breaks the silence by exploring a simple but life-shifting truth:

**God has many roles…

but only one eternal identity.
And that identity is Father.**

Identity Comes Before Roles

A friend once told me,
“People see the roles I play, but not who I am.”
When I asked who he was, he said:

The Bible reveals God the same way.
Before He was Creator… He was Father.
Before He ruled as King… He was Father.
Before anything existed, Jesus said:

Fatherhood isn’t a role God adopted.
It’s who He has always been.

Why Jesus Taught Us to Say “Our Father”

Jesus never taught us to pray “Our King” or “Our Judge,”
even though both are true.

He taught us to pray:

“Our Father…”

Because roles create distance.
A king rules over you.
A judge stands above you.
But a Father draws you close.

Jesus reveals that every role God holds
is lived out through a Father’s heart.

From Titles to Trust

Many believers relate to God’s roles
but not to His identity.
They respect Him as Lord
yet struggle to trust Him as Father.

But Jesus says:

God’s roles don’t compete with His Fatherhood—
they express it.

The Heart of the Episode

God has many roles.
But only one eternal identity.
His identity is Father.

Not a reflection of human fatherhood,
but the perfect Father revealed in Jesus—
the One who knows you, welcomes you,
and invites you into closeness.

So today, when you pray,
don’t approach Him by His titles.
Approach Him by His identity.

Say the words Jesus taught:
“Our Father…”

Reflection Questions

1. What role of God do you relate to most—and why?
2. How would beginning with “Father” change the way you pray?
3. Where might Jesus be inviting you into a deeper, more trusting relationship?