I am going to get real with you. I want to talk about men of God and what that even means. This is something very close to my heart and it’s mainly because my Lord put it there. I think that everyone on planet earth could tell you about who a man of God isn’t. I feel like as a whole we have given ourselves a bad reputation and thrown away trust and honor. A man of God honors and respects women. A man of God loves and protects women.
I am not condemning anyone here. God knows that I have played my part in this tragedy. Have you ever led a woman on? Have you ever left her crying or just plain left when you’d lost interest? Have you ever yelled at a woman? Have you ever manipulated her or betrayed her trust? I would have to raise my hand to all of these. The choice is yours to change how you act and live. I choose to be who He created me to be.
One of the greatest things about the World Race is the role that I get to play as a brother in Christ. My job is to show my sisters that there are men out there that love them without wanting anything in return. My hope is that as I walk with Jesus in righteousness, the wounds and the mistrust will be healed.
Jesus says that we are not of this world. Well this world is about mass producing sex like candy. Whether we are a part of it or not, it wants to suck us in any way possible. There is a game that society and this world plays that makes us disrespect ourselves and each other. The devil has put a spirit of confusion over this world to the point of people doing the opposite of their feelings. Why is it that in today’s dating culture, if you have an attraction to someone, you act like they don’t exist? I feel like dating has become a wild scramble of, “maybe this person will work”, when in reality you have given them a piece of yourself before you even knew who they were, ending in heartbreak. This has become a revolving door of heartbreak and desperation.
I feel like we have lost the meaning of honor and respect. I believe that God has someone for us. I don’t think that it’s necessary to find that person to live a happy life. I do believe though that there are things that He has for us that cannot be obtained without the person He intended for us. One of them is a love that most don’t even know exists. I didn’t…That being said, I believe that most if not all of the problem is that so many are barking up the wrong tree. That woman might not be married at the moment, but His plan isn’t for you to sleep with her a few times and then leave. If you put it into kingdom terms, that girl is someone else’s future wife and your sister. She is someone’s little girl and she is to be cared for and cherished. Whether she knows it or not she, deserves respect.
Guarding a woman’s heart for her is something completely new to me. It is so important! We are called to do this. Have you ever stopped and thought about your intentions? If they were pure or not? Why are you saying what you are saying to her? Is it to affirm her and love her well, or is it a good line that might lead to what you think you want in the only way you know how to get it. This walk I am on is teaching me that I was created to love and respect women especially the one He has for me. I have come to a realization that I have a responsibility to guard each and every woman’s heart that I come into contact with. The ones I am closer to all the more, because they are the ones that my words and actions have the most influence over. As men we have power that we have been abusing for far too long! I believe that women are born with a desire for a husband and that desire can make them vulnerable. We take advantage of that desire and run rampant with it. What if men only pursued with the intention of loving her as well as he possibly could. What if whether she is beautiful or not, men didn’t see women as trophies to be had? I know that a lot of the women that I have come to know and love wouldn’t have as many walls up. I have looked into their eyes and seen the pain caused by other men that could have so easily been the man I used to be.
There are absolute truths that I think we need to regain as a whole that would change our lives. Here is a couple. God is good and always will be. He has a plan for us that breaks the realm of our thoughts into pieces. He wants to bless us and is worthy of our trust. I know that before I trusted Him, I was looking at every woman that walked by to see if she was the one. I had to learn that His plan for me was better than anything I could think up. He knows my type better than me, because He knows me better than me. Do you trust that He will show you who He has for you when the time is right? Have you been striving so adamantly to find that special someone that you have lost your way and fallen into a trap of lonely despair?
I think that a big part of this whole mess is that we do not own up to our responsibilities as men. Adam blamed Eve in the garden even though it says that he was with her while sin was getting a foothold on mankind. I spent most of my life turning a blind eye to what I knew was right. We are supposed to lead by example and in turn even if she wants something else, do the righteous thing. It is time for men to rise up, grab on to their birthright and be who He created us to be.
I pray that this cry of my heart become contagious! With my limited audience, this may only reach a few, but I hope that maybe one guy will feel a pull on his heart to rise up.
As for the ladies, you are to be cherished and respected. You are worth it and deserve a man that will treat you the way the Lord would want him to. Don't settle. Trust that He has someone for you that will surpass your dreams. Trust that He will reveal him to you when the time is right.
