What happened?
What happened? Where did they go? Are they still scared? Are they still hiding? Are they running, whimpering, or crying? What happened? Where did they go when we needed them most? Where were they when we were fallen and not to be picked up, when we were so sick and nobody to pray, when we needed one more hand to lift up this burden, this cross we bear from day today? Where are these almost now known mythical beings known as men? What happened? What happened to having men like Job, to be stripped of everything known to him and still having faith stronger than diamonds? What happened to having men like Moses, who took up the courage to drive his people to saftey admist the many dangers that faced him? What happened?
We now live in a world with men that are silent, a fatherless generation. We live in a world that tells men it’s better to ignore a son’s cry from aproval, leadership, and guidance. It tells them that their daughters are better told with distractions rather than affirmation. We live in a world that tells men that there is nothing better than money, power, and sex. It tells men that we can buy anything and everything, that more is better, controll is of the essence, and the idolatry of a woman’s body is okay. We live in a world that gives men the okay to please himself with images of women on the internet without regret, that there is nothing wrong with lust, that there is no need for self control. We as men have let things get so far out of hand, we can’t tell what is right and wrong anymore. We live in a world that tells us that we as men are failures, and will forever fail.
So where are they? Where are the men? Where are the men that will protest against this lacking? Where are the men that will go up against the claims of a “wordly man” and be a true man of God? For so long we’ve needed men stand up and step up the game, to admit the fall we had in the beggining, but CHANGE, and become the man God wants us to be. We need men that are dangerous enough to speak out against these demon-like curses that bind us to this earth. We need men that will put down the bottle, put down the remote, put down the saw and go out with their kids. Have them explore, teach, dig deep and show their little boys their worth and tell them that they will never fail in the eyes of God. They can show their daughters that they are princesses, royalty beyond nations. Tell their sisters, girl-friends, wives that they are beautiful, wanted, and truely captivating. They are breath-taking, chosen, and that they would go above and beyond for them. We need men that aren’t just “nice” but dangerous, adventurous, and willing men that will go anywhere that God will ask them to go. They would go to the corners of the earth, over every mountain, to the darkest depths of the sea just to heed God’s calling.
There was once such a man. He was such a man to proclaim how great His father’s love for us truely is. He stepped up and out of his comfort zone. He prayed for the weak, healed the sick, spoke to the thousands. He showed such compassion and love for the women he passed. He was gentle with them and his children. But he also spoke against the pharosees and hypocrytes, furious, he turned up the temple tables. He used the word against the devil like a sword, against temptation, and was triumphant. And we, as men like we are today, condemed him to death. We let our own selfishness kill the one true example of a true holy man. He paid the ultimate cost. He took up that cross, bleeding, beaten, torn to shreds, humiliated…and he did it. He did it….for us. He died for us. Because he knew it was worth it. It was worth the torture, the words put against him, the suffering. It was worth it all.
What man can you think of that would do that? That would stand up against the wicked, be kind to the meek and mild, show tenderness and compassion with women and children, gather thousands of people, and finally saving us from all our own self-centered sins by sacrificing his own life so that we could live and breathe on, that we would one day be with our true father. I have yet to see a man that comes close to that, and that is my desire for all men, to come even close to him. So I ask, what man do you want to become? Do you live a life of life of adventure, meaning, of challenging spirit? Or do you go back, hide yourself away from your wife, kids, family, loved ones to live it through the end of an empty bottle, through a screen of defiling pictures, thoughts of worthlessness and hopelessness, giving up to these things on earth, letting the devil get the best of you? Will you be a man of God, or admit defeat, admit failure? What man will you be? And thus the question, “What happened?” changes to this: “What WILL happen?”. You decide.
