God put people on earth for his reasons.
Revelation 4:11 tells us that God created all things and because of him they have life. That he is worthy of our power and glory. The Bible also states that he loves us his children and that we were called to unite together in the seeking of his will without division.
"I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought." 1 Corinthians 1:10
That gives us a little more of an insight as to how we are called to live but why did God create man and woman specifically? Genesis 1:26-27 says that God created man (Adam) to rule over his other creations. These include the land, the sea and the air and the animals that occupy them. It says he created man and women and created them in his image as man - and as woman.
As I get older and hopefully wiser, I begin to notice that each person is truly and completely different from the next. Although we share certain traits like looks, personality types, stature, general disposition and level of education, to name a few, at the most core part of our hearts and beings though, zero of us are the identical. That wasn't an accident and we didn't get there from evolving from monkeys or gorilla's. While these are a couple of the animals have similar genetic design and composition, we are not the same and thus could not have evolved from them. I believe that man, in all of his intellectual superiority simply could not accept that religion is an acceptable option, so we must find the animal we are most like, so that we may deduce our descent the only way we know how. Man's mind is truly powerful, analytically and imaginative. That's also Gods design manifested in our life. I believe that God understood that we would be born into an earth at spiritual war and equipped us to survive long enough to get to our destiny in this lost, confusing and violent world.
This because God has a plan for you and everything you have ever done wrong is forgiven when you accept God as your creator and Jesus Christ your savior! That's the good news they speak of in Isaiah 61:1 As I earlier stated, each of us are equipped with a very specific skill-set that was designed into you specifically, to seek his will for your life. It may be easier for some to think of life as "Gods Movie" of life. Our destiny is to find your "place" in God's movie.
So how do we do that? As we all know, the road of life is full of twists and turns. New friends are made with both fruitful and unfruitful results along the way. There is a constant flow of new people and new things coming and going. There are easy things to accomplish and very hard things. There are scary times and euphoric or brave times, confusing things and things that are very clear. What does it all mean and how does it all fit together? Why is life so hard to understand and confusing for Christians, while lost souls seem to just “glide” through it?
Well, first of all, lost souls are... well, lost. They either have a lack of information, or have exercised their free will to turn away from the very reason that they are alive. They have no idea that their creator, God, calls us to know him personally through Jesus Christ. This, so that he can forgive your sins as stated in Jeremiah 31:34 and lead us to "our part" in his movie. Some folks don't like to hear it, but he does not need you, you need him! More than 100 Billion (with a "B") Christians have walked the earth before you and I, attempting to do the exact thing that I am speaking of. We too are called for the same purpose, seek Him!
I was one of these folks in a past life and I feel for these folks. Not in a condescending or prideful way, but real pain in my heart for their pain. I have no doubt that they have a life that I no longer want.
Most of them are angry and frustrated in general. This "mental place", which is such a dangerous place to be, creates what are called "strongholds", or "Satan strings", meaning he can manipulate your thoughts with guilt and/or doubt because of discrepancies that have occurred in the past. Many have turned to bad habits and addictions to "kill the pain" and they are disillusioned and exhausted because these "fixes" are only temporary and will continue leaving their hearts empty, their minds confused and their spirit repressed. The Lord revealed it to me through "numbness". I didn't feel anything. I read the Bible twice from cover to cover but couldn't understand it. For me, I knew that I felt repressed and scared most of the time and it was a bummer to live!
This is exactly where Lucifer wants them, so that he can get "his" work done too. His work is death, divorce, confusion, strife, depression, doubt and many other things that humans know to be "bad" in our hearts and it often seems that we somehow know it almost by accident. These (bad) things must exist for good to exist. They are in balance. Most of these people have zero concept of the fact that God calls all men to serve the kingdom of heaven, in his honor, as stated in Isaiah 48.
Many of us walk through life doing our best to survive, so that we can later thrive, when it's our time to. This in spite of having no daily purpose to get out of bed, except to work and continue walking what we call a "life". That is of course, until we find the woman of our dreams, have children or discover an unbelievable career or hobby. Then we have all kinds of “reasons” for life. While those things “become” why we strive and are alive, I submit that it’s not the “main” reason that God gave us life.
“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans!” – John Lennon
To get a better understanding of how and why God made each of us different, let's look at both man and woman, individually.
Most Christian Men believe that their responsibility on earth is to be a "good guy". They are to be loyal, caring, honest, patient, reverent and understanding. They feel like if they can just "hold the push-up or be enough like Jesus" long enough to please God, their lives will somehow become easy and their relationships and/or marriages will be blessed and they will no longer have the problems of the American Male as we know them today. If they sacrifice enough, they will somehow reach the lofty goal of being a "good guy".
I think this is killing men on the inside and I submit that while we are called to act in accordance with Gods design for us, we need to know more about exactly "what that is", to achieve our Divine Destiny.
Men in general are bored and angry. I wonder why? We’ve been taught that “our nature”, adventurous and aggressive and dominating is wrong. It’s repressed many men to a point of no return. A place where emasculation has become normal and accepted by him his heart is all but dead. This is a very dangerous place to live gentlemen and regardless of who you are and what you have, it will eventually kill your heart, soul and eventually mind. This is regardless of whether or not your body survives to a ripe old age!
Male masculinity is under attack! Its been happening for decades, but most notably in the 70’s when a few "abused" women got together because they either got hurt by a "man" who was overly aggressive or confused about how to treat a woman, or they no longer felt beautiful and eloquent as they were designed to be. Many of them got an attitude about it and turned to her own kind to get her social and physical needs met.
This began the war against the American Male that has become the central part of many women’s purpose in life. A cause set in motion I suppose. Instead of realizing that they were dealing with an evil or uneducated person, usually because of his positional authority in her life or in the situation and moving on, she turned against her very nature and why God put HER here. Oh, it’s not just bad for us guys, it’s killing her too. If masculinity is under attack, femininity has been slaughtered!
You see, she’s not living her role either. She was created to be our “soft rock, comforter, the precious vine of our lineage or “helper” as the Bible states, it means way more though. It means that she completes us and together we become a “whole one”. Without her we are lost in this world and very vulnerable to moral and sexual sin, to name a couple of them.
Men were not created to be alone. We were created to protect, provide for and procreate with... her. We are designed in His image to do very specific jobs and we need to start acting like it! Genesis 1:27
And if we were created in His image, we must remember that, "The Lord God is a warrior and The Lord is his name! Exodus 15:3
Does this sound like a repressed or depressed man? I don't think it does. 2 Chronicles 36:15-17 tells of a time when He tried to reach the people of Jerusalem time and again, with nobody willing to listen and they "mocked" his messengers. After many attempts to “reach them” and when nobody would respond after all of those attempts, He killed them all through King Nebuchadnezzar. Also, I’m sure you are familiar with the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, right? Also all dead! Does that sound like the father of the “warm and fuzzy” Jesus in almost every single picture of him that we've ever seen?
No, of course it doesn't! I submit that these are worldly pictures of JC. The artists intent was pure, I have no doubt and I'm sure that they are strategically designed to be “inviting”, or “inoffensive” to lost souls or “potential future candidates” for the work of God.
The logic and reasoning behind why most artists did this is sound, but not an accurate depiction and it's turned many men "off". Jesus, as His son and our "friend" as Christians, was also a “very bad dude”. He absolutely wreaked havoc when needed to. He cleared the entire temple with a vine, very “matter-of-factly”, when “God came upon Him”. No big deal to Him but devastated the people of Jerusalem's marketplace that day.
Picture this for a moment if you like... Your Jewish, it's Festival Passover, an important Jewish Celebration of the coming spring harvest and their freedom from Egypt, back in Bible times. Thousands of Jews are celebrating and the "money changers" are collecting taxes for the selling of animals in the Temple, so that they were properly able to worship our one and only God. It was scandalous to turn the Holy Temple of Jerusalem into a market place and Jesus flipped!
There are tax collectors and soldiers walking about the Temple, ensuring transactions go down as planned and Jesus has loads of reasons and opportunities to just "turn the other cheek" and leave things alone. Does he? Nope!
He blasts right in and basically "goes postal", kicking and punching these "for profit" figures inside the temple and even using a vine for a whip, he violently and completely clears the temple! He's upset because Gods Temple is not where you do business for profit! This is the act that eventually gets him Killed, accused of political insurrection and a threat to Pax Romana, Greek for "Roman Peace".
Does this sound like the feeble kind of Jesus depicted in the artists renderings? It's important that we "get" this, because.. we are created in his image.
We are told to “turn the other cheek” when dealing with ignorant people because they deserve God’s Grace through us and because God's Grace truly is sufficient, or none of us would be here today. This isn't a call to act like an idiot and go begin finding the "money changers" of the world for discipline but and attempt to make you see why you feel the way you do, deep inside as a male.
Don’t mistake this though, if you, yourself give grace continuously and still get “beat up”, don’t take it! Get aggressive and let them know that you have no problem with “going back to prison!”. In context, I’m speaking of the metaphorical prison of emasculation and cowardice, but he doesn’t need to know that. If he still persists in being nasty and you can’t walk away, clock him in the chops! If he gets up, knock him ALL THE WAY OUT! As in, out cold! This is not a good situation here guys but you must “come through” for God and your family!
Pastor Rick Warren, of Saddleback Church in California, stated it well when he said, "The Bible is very practical here: it says “as much as it depends on you … as far as it's possible on your behalf, live at peace with everybody." However, I think this is also implying that sometimes it’s impossible to live at peace with others. Have you ever met someone who - no matter what you did - you just couldn't get along with? No matter what you did, he could not be appeased?" “The Bible states... If it is possible …” For instance, if someone abused my children and abused my wife, I would likely not have peace with him. I don't think God would expect me to be at peace with him as long as the abuse remained a threat."
I’m so committed to this way of life that I carry a sidearm all of the time. Not because I’m afraid of, or unable to, fight - or that I am unable to turn the other cheek when dealing with ignorant people, but so that I’ll be prepared if I happen to be present when attacked by a "violent" man with a guy himself. What then? If you get into an altercation with someone like this and win hand-to-hand, what would a "mad-man" usually do next? or one What do you do with a guy who can’t take “being whooped” like a man and opts to take it to the next level? I'll tell you what you do... fight or die! I desire nothing more than for this to never happen but if it does, I'm protecting my family at whatever cost it brings me! Gods Grace is sufficient.
Women and men alike... if you are attacked by someone carrying a gun, as most “bad people” do today who plan on attacking someone - you’d better have one too! Bad men of the world have been taking whatever they want by force from of women and weak men since the beginning of time and it’s time to respond as our forefathers did!
If you choose to exercise your free will to accept your role as a "man"... protector, pro-creator and provider and live this lifestyle, as an American, you have rights under the second amendment but you’d better mean it all the time - or you can get yourself shot and killed very easily! Abide by all laws and exercise extreme gun safety, especially if there are children present!
Matthew 5:38-44 says do not resist evil and to turn the other cheek. There are many times that we, as men, have to turn the other cheek or "bite our tongues" but there are also times that you do not. I believe that this is because no man is so far gone that God cannot use him, if called. Ours is not to make a life decision for someone else (ie… intentionally kill without cause), but Christian men are called to protect those we love and our gifts for the Kingdom of God. If we are not there because we "turned around, or turned the other cheek" and get shot or stabbed to death, we cannot be used on earth for Gods cause! Do you think God calls men to be men, in his image (warriors) and not battle? How is this possible? It's not!
God's Grace is sufficient and our sin debt has been paid in full by Jesus Christ! You cannot win a battle if you will not fight!
"Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize!" 1 Corinthians 9:24
There are some pretty violent rules for life and we are abiding by very few of them! Exodus 21:12-17 talks about how anyone who attacks or curses his mother or father, kills someone and God allows it and kidnappers… are to be killed! Who’s going to enforce those rules? Maybe Oprah or her mouthpiece - Dr. Phil? No… it will be a "real" man or "real" men.
It’s no coincidence that movies like Gladiator, Die Hard, Terminator, Top Gun, Days of Thunder, Conan, Warriors, Braveheart and the like are blockbusters! These are all movies where men are “acting like men”. We must remember also though, that they are acting! Real world doesn't work like that but most "violent men" don't quite understand the separation.
When we watch this kind of show though, something inside of us just knows that we were created for this, to find a battle worth fighting, and adventure to live and a beauty to rescue. - John Eldredge, Wild At Heart. So what’s the problem?
The problem is that educated people are taught that violence is not acceptable. Really, isn't it? Great! - Whose going to let the uneducated violent guys know?
Why do little boys play with weapons? I submit that men were built for battle and God has "built us" with physical and mental facilities that are somehow preparing us for life. This, in spite of how “life” says we should be acting.
Man to man, let me ask you; were we really only “acting” like warriors or was that somehow the “identity”, that so many men seek and that we somehow alienated somewhere down the line in some frail attempt to gain acceptance? I propose that we were rehearsing for life's battles.
It's natural to us and it flows so easily out of boys and young men because it’s how God built us! Think about the implications here and you will gain clarity on the topic.
“From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and violent men take it by force.” Mathew 11:12
Does that sound familiar? Does it sound like a “good” thing? Have you seen the TV show “Cops” lately? Better yet, why do we have “Law Enforcement Officers?” To enforce the law right? Isn't most of their slogans something to the effect of, "To protect and to serve?" Sounds like a man's job to me.
What if we added just one word to both ends of that slogan and it said, "To protect (women) and to serve (God)?” It changes how you think about it. Doesn't that effectively make us our own protector against “man?” Man enforces law. Are you starting to get it yet?
Christian men were created by God to be warriors! This isn’t a license to go “kick the crap” out of those Pharisees though; it’s a call to become who you were created to be in Gods Strength. The strength you were given before birth, to do the job that God created you to.
Find what you enjoy doing and are good at. That’s how God designed you! Your desires will expose how God designed you. Your design exposes Gods destiny for you.
I know who I am. I speak out of turn sometimes but it got me here. That’s how I know God called me to speak. God gave me a heart with courage and physical strength, thick bones and a hard head that’s afraid of nothing. That’s how I know I was born for battle.
I’m madly in love with my lady and I can touch her like nobody else can, within the confines of our (now) unmarried situation. That’s how I know that God made me a lover of a woman. Do you see how that works? Write this stuff down too because it’s just the tip of the iceberg for your life.
Once you establish a “baseline” of how God designed you through your desires, it will automatically become very important to you to that you develop and exploit those talents, as they are the tools that God gave you for your part in his movie.
Again, women are missing the mark too it seems. How can we protect someone who not only is trustless with men, but demands to be the controller? What happened?
It goes back to Adam and Eve. The original sin was a man not protecting a woman, or the garden of the tree of truth and evil, as God instructed Adam to. He fell second. Eve fell first! She “listened” to Lucifer’s temptation and because she wanted “true” wisdom, gave in. She began controlling the situation immediately because Adam was weak and she knew it. She even had Adam take a bite of the apple, to ensure that He was involved. Adam stood right there, listened to the temptation and then not only wimped-out by watching in fear but he succumbed to her temptation too. That’s the sin we are still dealing with today!
Let me ask you something. The last time you were on the freeway, trying to get where you were going, do you remember seeing a slow car in the fast lane…ever? Of course you do. We all do and it’s horribly annoying, but it plays to my point. People are angry and feel out of control for a reason. The safety of their car (of so they think) is a great place to have control! They are moving for nobody and now you know why… How about the DMV? Been there lately, how was it? Any lazy people (admittedly that this just happens to be minority females usually) controlling their environment and your actions there? Do you see the patterns of people craving control in the world yet?
Do you see why now? I’ll advise you to start your new life’s journey with some great reading, or books on CD, as I prefer.
Hebrews 13:6 says we are to Fear no man, as he was created exactly as you were with a different purpose.
The only true threat you should feel toward them is the possibility of losing your societal freedom if he so chooses to relinquish his remaining days on earth by your hand. Don’t give it away by doing anything stupid though!
So, seek your own adventure, win your beauty (or win her back - she needs you!) and don’t be scared to “kick-butt” to do it if you have to!
You are best Brave Warrior in your home! You are the best husband in your marriage, the best father to your children, the “William Wallace”, the “Randy Couture” or the “John Riggs” of your part of “Gods life movie!” Who else could be?
It's your part, go live it!
