MANHOOD
“Watch. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong.”
The world sold you a counterfeit. It said manhood is how much you can take, how many you can get, how little you're allowed to feel. All lies. Biblical manhood is strength under control, power that protects instead of preys, that provides instead of takes, that leads by getting low. Any coward can dominate. It takes a real man to stay faithful, to tell the truth when it costs him, to master the very appetite everybody else lets run their whole life.
Master one appetite today instead of letting it master you.
- Master one appetite today instead of letting it run you.
- Protect or provide for someone who cannot pay you back.
- Tell the truth in the one place it is going to cost you.
Maybe you have never actually come home to Him. It is simpler than religion made it. Admit you cannot fix yourself. Believe Jesus already did what you could not, took the weight and beat the grave. Then talk to Him like He is real, because He is: God, I am done running. I believe You. Take what I have got left and make me new. That is the door. If you prayed that and meant it, tell one believer today and find a church that preaches the real thing. You do not clean up first. You come as you are, mud and all.
- Teach me strength that serves instead of takes.
- Kill the counterfeit the world called a man.
- Give me self-control where I have had none.