What is Your Weakness?

So the other day I picked up DC Comics’ re-release of “Legends of the Dark Knight.” For those of you not in the know DC Comics reset the entire DC universe reverting every title back to Issue 1. The just started “Legends of the Dark Knight” last week. I personally really enjoy LDK because it exists out of the normal Batman continuity, simply telling great stories about Batman.  One of the stories in issue 1 really caught my eye.

::Spoiler Alert::

In “The Butler Did it,” written by Damon Lindelof and beautifully drawn by Jeff Lemire, Bruce Wayne has a very interesting conversation with Alfred, his butler.  In this conversation he basically informs Alfred that he has not weakness. That he’s better than all the other Superheroes out there because there he is supposedly invulnerable.  Alfred, however, assures his mis-guided master that he in fact vulnerable.

To prove this Alfred arranges for Batman to come across a mugging of a family. This mugging instantly reminds Batman about the mugging and death of his own family and so blindly jumps in to save the family without properly assessing the situation. As he does so he quickly finds out that he was set up and has the stuffing knocked out of him! At the end Alfred picks up his now humbled master and leads him away simply saying “Lets draw you a hot bath shall we?”

In that moment Bruce realized that he was vulnerable. He learned that his weakness is the very thing that he the holds closest to him, the thing that spurred him to become what he was today.

As I read that I thought about myself as a Christian. What is my weakness as I walk with God. I also thought about all of the other great men and women of God who seemed so impervious to anything yet fell so hard.   

We can never allow ourselves to get to a place where we believe that we are invulnerable. Moment we believe that we are in way saying “Jesus I don’t need you anymore. I don’t need your hand of grace, I don’t need your protection. I’m good all on my own.” 

As men and women of God we must cling to the cross, holding firm to the promises that God will protect us, that the Holy Spirit will guide us, that the blood of Christ has redeemed us, and has given us the grace to walk in righteousness and holiness!