Monday, 11 February 2008

• The Adventures Of...

  The truth is that I’ve been searching, seeking, longing for something more meaningful for quite some time now. I’ll admit that, for a while, I really thought I needed a girlfriend- a special companion, if you will. But anyways, for whatever reasons (Providence, probably), whenever any opportunity came up to make a move, I was stopped or perhaps even preemptively rejected. Providence… At least, that’s what I think now.

  The answer just came to me from John Eldredge’s book “Wild at Heart”. In a way, I’m doing nothing more than relaying a valuable message. Summarizing Eldredge on this, every man must have had masculinity bestowed upon him. It’s definitely a blessing if one’s father may be the one to bestow and initiate the manhood that is every man’s blessing but more than anything else, it’s every man’s fundamental need.  Without such masculinity, the truer desires of a man’s heart may never be realized. Most relevant to my own life today and perhaps too many others search for their strength or their worth or their value in woman. In a sense, woman becomes an adventure or perhaps ‘conquest’ may fit here more relevantly. But it is this gift, this sense of true self and the realization of this man’s heart can never be fulfilled in Eve alone.

  It is our own special God-given adventure that we men truly need, that I truly need. It is this individualized, personal, dangerous, exciting journey that validates us, that makes us men- in the truest sense of the word. Where our fathers have failed to initiate, our Heavenly Father will initiate and where our world so greatly deceives us, our God will guide us. Yes, more than anything else, I want that adventure. I want God to validate me and initiate me and grow me and make me into a godly man.

  Brothers, I ask you to fight this battle with me. I ask you to run this race with me. May we stay together, be transparent, be humble in each other’s presence. May we bear each other’s burdens, and fight each other’s battles. I pray that we may endure and find our hearts and find our strength - our true strength- in our God. And lastly, I pray that we may grow stronger and become more passionate for our love that is our God.

  Amen.

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