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Godly Men Part Two

September 25, 2014 By bwatson Leave a Comment

This post is originally from Sept. 23, 2009.  Last Thursday I posted Pt. 1 of this 2 part series.

Godly Man CardAs I wrote yesterday, our society is attempting to emasculate all men therefore; many men have gone the other way to prove that they are men.  They want to prove their masculinity by being a bully or a tough guy.  Some men believe the more aggressive they are, the more masculine they are.  These men are going to the extreme to prove they are men. The other extreme is that men become so effeminate they allow everyone to walk on them.  They become so “in touch” with their emotions, the emotions begin to control them.  Men like this want their sensitive side to be what everyone sees even if it is a detriment to them.  Where are men supposed to be?  How do they portray who God created them to be in a way that is not seen as a bully or a sissy?  There has to be a balance.  As we look at Jesus Christ as our example, he was never a bully or a sissy.  He was always a man who was in control no matter what the situation.  Jesus knew when to show force and when to show compassion.  He had to be gentle because children were drawn to Him, but at the same time He was confrontational with the Pharisees and other religious leaders.  He showed His strength as He calmed the storms and He showed His mercy as He healed many people.  He was a leader for a very motley crew called the disciples.  He was submissive to the leadership of His Father at all times even to the point of death on the cross.  Jesus was and is the ultimate man.  We need to learn from Him if we are to be Godly men.

Philippians 2:5-8 (ESV)
5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
7 but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Now, before you think that I believe we can be perfect or sinless; I do not.  Look at some of the men that God used to change history.  Noah got drunk, Moses murdered a man and he Praying Manstuttered, Abraham lied about his wife and gave him to another man (not just once, but twice), Jacob was a liar and a schemer, Samson was a womanizer, David was an adulterer and murderer…Do you get the picture?  God used these men in spite of their own sinfulness.  God uses men who have a heart for God.  Abraham was called a “friend of God” and David was “a man after God’s own heart.”  Jacob was renamed Israel which can be translated “God empowered prince.”

So what made these men and many others just like them so special?  It all comes down to their relationships with God; the fact that they realized that God was and is the Almighty.  God wants to be our Almighty.  He designed us to be aggressive and gentle at different times.  He designed us to be leaders and rational.  He also created us with all the different emotions that we show, but He wants to be in control of when we show them.  Being Christian men does not mean that we are not masculine; it just means that we are God’s men being used by God as men.

I truly wonder what the world would look like if all the Christian men in the world would stand up to be used with the desire and the fortitude that God gave us from the very beginning.  I believe that God is calling His men to be seen as HIS MEN!!!

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After spending more than 25 years on church staffs, God has allowed me to take the experiences and knowledge that I gained to develop a Biblical Counseling ministry.  The basis of this ministry is to allow God’s Word to shine on the main issues in peoples’ lives in order to bring His resolutions to problems.

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Godly Men pt. 1

September 18, 2014 By bwatson 1 Comment

This post was originally published Sept. 22, 2009. 

Matthew 11:12 (AMP)
12 And from the days of John the Baptist until the present time, the kingdom of heaven has endured violent assault, and violent men seize it by force [as a precious prize—a share in the heavenly kingdom is sought with most ardent zeal and intense exertion].

James ArnessWe live in a day that has attempted to blur if not erase gender differences.  Our society is teaching us today that there should not be any noticeable distinctions between men and women, except maybe the obvious physical ones and even those are now being blurred.  We are being taught that the violence in our society is caused by little boys playing war games and fighting or “shooting” one another.  Parents are encouraged to help their boys be gentler and not so rough.  Have you ever noticed that boys are drawn to guns, swords, knives, bombs and the like?  Do you think they were taught that or is it something that is inherently given to them?  I remember as a small child, I loved to dress up like a cowboy with my six-shooter on my hip.  My mom would try to keep me out of the trees with my holster on, most of the time with no avail.  The other boys in the neighborhood would come over and we would throw those green china berries at each other or at any girl that would walk past.  At elementary school the boys would always gain up together and harass the girls in whatever they were doing.  Were we just mean?  Maybe.  We were just being boys and doing what boys did.

Think with me for a few moments.  Who are some of the movie heroes?  How about John Wayne, James Dean, Sean Connery or Clint Eastwood?  What made James Arness as Matt Dillon in Gunsmoke so popular?  OK, now I am showing my age.  New actors would have to include Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, or Bruce Willis in Die Hard.  How about Mel Gibson in BraveHeart or Vin Diesel in Fast and Furious?  Even Tom Hanks has played in roles that would qualify as being a hero (Saving Private Ryan and Castaway).  What made these roles and men qualify as heroes?  Some of these men have been considered to be very attractive to women, even deemed sexy.  Why?  They were MEN!!!  They were not pansies or momma’s boys.  They loved adventure.  They loved to fight.  And they always got the girl.  Every boy growingHarrison Ford up has those same desires.  Getting the girl comes later than the other two.

What happens to those characteristics in men?  Our jobs take the adventure from us.  Corporate etiquette takes the fight from us.  Therefore we get lazy and lose our masculinity.  Maybe not all of us, but many of us do.  Look at the American church today, it is filled with men who feel out of place or they are completely bored.  We are teaching men how to be sensitive, how to get in touch with their inner feelings or their feminine sides.  Did God give Adam a feminine side?  What about the heroes of the Bible?  Name some… Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, Caleb, Elijah, David, and Daniel from the Old Testament, just to name a few.  The New Testament heroes would have to include John the Baptist, Peter, John, James and Paul and of course you have to name Jesus as He is the hero of all heroes.  Do you see any femininity in these men?  I don’t think so.  I see adventure, the desire to fight, and many wilderness experiences.  Moses spent 40 years in the palace, 40 years in the wilderness, and then 40 years being the leader God created him to be.  Jacob fought with the angel of the Lord, where?  In the wilderness.  Caleb at the age of 80 wanted to take his hill that was promised to him years prior.  Elijah looked like a mountain man as did John the Baptist.  John and his older brother James were called the Sons of Thunder.  One author said they would have had on leather jackets and racing stripes on their camels.  Today they would be in a motorcycle gang, according to the same author.  These men that are noted were true men of God.  They had their sense of adventure and willing to fight for the kingdom of God.

Are we willing to fight for the kingdom of God?  Is our relationship with God an adventure?  Or is it dull and boring?  The Christian man needs to learn to live his life for God with all the adventure that is in his heart.  Men need to stand up and be men.

Thoughts are generated from reading Wild at Heart.

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After spending more than 25 years on church staffs, God has allowed me to take the experiences and knowledge that I gained to develop a Biblical Counseling ministry.  The basis of this ministry is to allow God’s Word to shine on the main issues in peoples’ lives in order to bring His resolutions to problems.

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