…So it was a very redeeming experience for both of us.
As with any addiction, overcoming it isn’t easy, but it is possible to overcome because Jesus has already paved the way and made it possible. He defeated sin, death, and hell!
Still each day is a battle and we have to stand up and make the choice whether to fight or not. It’s up to us to choose whether to be killing sin, or to allow sin to be killing us… Those are the ONLY options.
Currently I’m learning what being a “real man” looks like. It isn’t an easy process, but it’s good! I’m blessed to be surrounded by some incredibly godly men who are walking the same road to godly manhood and together, we move forward to reach the prize Jesus has for us!
The biggest obstacle I’m finding out along this journey is SELF… Yep, that’s right… We truly are our own worst critics. Why do I say that? Because, God has already created us to be the men of God whom He calls us to be! It’s up to us though to change the way we think, let go of our selfish desires and sins, and embrace the man in the mirror He created that stares back at us. God has equipped each of us for this battle to be the warriors whom we are suppose to be. It’s just up to us now to lay aside those things that so easily hold us back.
Another big lesson I’m learning that goes along with this is the concept of INTIMACY. A word that unfortunately, in our culture, has been drug through the mud and has lost it’s real meaning.
This brings me back to my original blog about all this… What are we all searching for when you get down to it…? LOVE & INTIMACY. Who doesn’t want that, right?
I have circled the globe now (literally), and no matter where I’ve been, whom I’ve met, the eye’s I looked into, love and intimacy are two of the things everybody wants. It’s our natural tendencies and humans. It also goes along with acceptance.
We try so hard to find love and intimacy in so many (wrong) places! I know I have in the past… That’s what this blog series is all about when you think about it. I wanted love, acceptance, and intimacy, and when I didn’t get it, I turned and found it elsewhere. It’s a dirty cycle in the broken world we live in.
One place I notice it really prevalent is in our teens and young adults. We as a society have really failed them in my opinion. Why? We ourselves have looked for love in the wrong places instead of turning to THE LOVE Himself. It’s a cycle we’ve gotta break before it gets too much further out of hand. If you look around you’ll see it…
If children don’t receive the proper love, acceptance and intimacy they should get from their Mothers and Fathers or family, when they get a little older, they’ll seek it out elsewhere. You know what I’m talking about… UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS!
We’ve all seen these teenage girls and guys who break up and have a new boyfriend/girlfriend every other week… We as a society have set them up for that failure because we’ve not been shown ourselves where to seek TRUE intimacy that can ONLY come from The Father. Until they/we/he/she realize that, it’ll only continue to fail time and time again.
True intimacy is something that can only come from The Father… Do you hear that? That’s the only place! And when we finally realize that, that’s when we’ll be able to stop seeking it elsewhere, and finally share it with others. When we grasp that, the men will be men of God, the women, women of God, and we’ll love like HE loves!
