A Call to Fathers

What does it mean to be a man? Is there a standard at which point we have reached manhood? Some sort of proving ground or earned status? is there a age we reach that we suddenly know, okay I’m a man now.

The truth is manhood has become more of a state of perpetual adolescence where being a man means the loudest brawler in the bunch with the biggest truck and who can drink the most beer and get the most girls. Unfortunately this often translates into fatherhood where we model this behavior to our children and raise up boys instead of men claiming victory over a misunderstood and unearned status. unfortunately many of us have learned what manhood is from our peers and not from our own fathers.

This is a call to guys to wake up and be Men. but how? If our fathers didn’t model for us what a man is, or we are lacking real mentorship in our lives or missing some piece of the puzzle how do we get to a base line to know how we should live and ultimately lead in the right direction as men are called to do.

We need to turn to our heavenly father, put away our sinful desires and learn from Jesus what being a man is all about, it is time we step up and raise the next generations to turn from the zeitgiest and back to the cross.

1 Cor 12:11 says. “When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.” Lets turn from our foolish desires and begin to strive to lead and raise up our children in the faith, lets take a stand in our homes and families and contend for the faith as Jude 1:3 tells us. Fathers, we must teach and instruct our Children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord and in order to do that we must learn ourselves what that means.

Please follow this blog if you are ready to learn what it means to be a man and stand up for the true calling God has for us as fathers. And in your own time sit with God and read His word. It is time we take our families back, our education systems, our culture and our Government and I believe it starts at home with fathers.