The Question.

Do I have what it takes?

John Eldridge in his book Wild At Heart talks about this being the question every boy asks. The answer will direct boys into being men with a capable confidence or men who are unsure and fearful.

Which kind of man are you?

Growing up I didn’t feel I had what it took to do anything of significance.

I became a man who lacked confidence and was fearful of trying things that I didn’t know how to do, my fear kept me from asking to learn, so everything scared me.

I lived in a constant state of fear of being found out as someone who didn’t belong.

Sound familiar?

God has not given us a spirit of fear but of love and sound mind 2 Timothy 1:7

Yesterday I changed the battery on my car by myself, small thing to the man who was raised with confidence, for me it was a break through moment.

It was an "I have what it takes" moment.

I know there are more and more men out there who are still asking the same question they were as eight-year-old boys and finding the answer the same at every turn.

As Christian men, we have the responsibility to find them and to build them up in such a way that their question is answered in a way that spurs them toward the high call that God has put on their life.

How is the question answered?

Masculinity is bestowed in the company of other men.

It takes a man to show a man he’s a man.

The world is full of fear-filled men who lack confidence.

As Christian men, we have the reasonability to find them and to build them up in such a way that their question is answered in a way that spurs them toward the high call that God has put on their life.

There is a company of men I have surrounding me who are bestowing masculinity upon me from their strength and I am bestowing to them from mine.

If you are a man in this world you need other men around you life is too hard to walk alone you need a band of brothers.

This week's challenge.

Pray for men to come into your life who you can lend your strength to and to whom you also receive strength from both are important if you are going to create a group that is not about one persons needs.

Pray for forty days, it biblical, fast a few meals in there and pray because God will bring men into your life and you into the lives of others that will change the course of your life and the life of those arIound you.

Next Blog "The One". You will never guess what it’s about.

The Poser and the Fig Leaf of Separation. .

I have a fig leaf and I use it to cover myself to pretend that my sin and shame is not an issue.
The Bible says love covers a multitude of sins.

So why did Adam and why do I use a fig leaf to cover my sins from those whose love would cover and wash our sin away.

By those I mean people around us, ultimately Christ is our redeemer, the Bible says when we confess our sins He (God) is faithful to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

When I come to my family, friends and co-workers and say "hey I'm sorry I messed up here" then there is a covering of the sin and a washing that can come but it can only come when we expose it by removing the fig leaf of the poser

Love can't cover our sin if we are with our fig leaf of separation.

It's time to remove your fig leaf and become who God made you to be.

This week what would it look like to make a conscience effort to not cover your mistakes and failings but with a heart of repentance (desire for changing) come to those you have dealt wrongly with and be real about what's going on.