If you’re a man, a father, a son, a brother that feels lost, are struggling or just need to hear from another man, listen to this
Whether you believe in God or not, this message is for you.
God is the pinnacle of fatherhood, masculinity and love. As a man, we should be striving to emulate the Heavenly Father.
For the same reason masculinity has been taken out of the home and society, so has God. Because a home built without God or a father is less successful than one built with.
The stats are easily found, but a fatherless home leads to more depression, more suicide, more jail time, more risks etc for the children growing up without the presence of a father.
Growing up with a father who wasn’t there for me, as well as older brothers, I should have been one of those statistics. I very well could have been. I found myself separating myself even farther from my biological father at the same time as I did my Heavenly Father. Drugs, alcohol, living for the weekend, degenerate behaviour…I should have been one of those statistics. By God’s grace I was saved in my darkest moments, a DUI and drug induced psychosis could have all but sealed my fate as one of the many young men, without a proper father figure, who became a statistic.
Perhaps you don’t need to hit rock bottom to realize these things, but I did, and I’m eternally grateful for making it out the other side. Only my Heavenly Father could have saved me, and he did.
Without God’s presence in his life, who does man answer to? The answer, especially without other masculine influences, is only himself. That isn’t what we’re here to do. A society of men that answer only to themselves is one that will deteriorate rapidly.
The man leads the woman, the woman raises the children, but who leads the man? God must, for there is no leadership without him.
God has a plan for you, he’s had it in mind before you stepped foot on this earth, even before you were in your mother’s belly. You can try to do it yourself, but the plans of man pale in comparison to the truth God has in store for your life.