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Strength and honor

Been watching a spree of "Man" movies lately.. Rocky, Braveheart, Gladiator, X-Men (yeah, not all-the-way a man-movie, but I'm talking about Wolverine)..
Ever since I read John Eldredge's "Wild at Heart", I've been on a quest for true manhood, beyond the quintessential "Nice Guy" that seems to be the logical consequence of Doing What We're Supposed to Do as Men (e.g., not drink, not smoke, be Nice to the girls, etc.). I've been on a quest to rediscover that masculine heart that was placed in me by the Lion of Judah, the untamable Warrior God, Yahweh, who rides on a chariot of fire and pierces the skies with spears of lightning..
A battle to fight, an adventure to live, a beauty to rescue..
I may have gotten a little off-balance after my first reading of the book, but now that the passion has cleared, and my wits are louder than my emotions, I'm able to realize more fully the purpose of disciplines and Supposed-Tos: they are like the training regimens that make a man Strong..
They are means to an End, not ends in themselves..
Ever warrior trains.. Every warrior equips himself with weapons.. And "the weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." (2 Cor 10:4-5).

Guess I should get back to memorizing and meditating on Scripture. I've found myself a little worse for the wear in the mind department - have allowed my defenses to grow a little too lax, and found some unwanted Ideas and stuff lurking in the recesses of my conscious and subconscious. Clean up time! Strength and honor, soldier!

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posted by Joel Chan @ 8:31 PM