The are many people around us today walking with "wounds" in our heart. I am talking espescially to the men around us. We carry in our lives the scars and wounds in our hearts over the years due to the words people say about us, the hurts we have when we were just a child that has not been healed, the precious part of our identity has been wrongly handled leaving us with a wound that did not close up over the years.
Some of us still live life like that because we have not found a Healer that can
heal us... some because we do not allow God to heal it. We are carrying out our daily lives wounded.
The circumstances of the world has hit us hard, at our dignity, at our status, at the most sensitive part of a mans's life; his heart, his strength, his masculinity. And the world offer us a counterfeit, a cover-up, a facade to hide the real man from who he really is. That's why some men started to beat up his children/wife instead of protecting them. We turn to alcohol,TV, newspapers etc etc and leave the woman to run the house. The Devil has hit us where it hurts and few of us have the strength to hit it back. The Devil does not want the REAL man to stand up because He knows that the real ones are DANGEROUS.
We men gets easily irritated, angry, abusive (words/actions) because there is something in our lives/hearts that has been lost or misplaced. It could be a misplaced trust, it could be because someone has caused us to feel lesser than what we are meant to be. As a result, we feel insecure and we hide, run away and put up a false front to tell the world we are fine, that we are strong and we are the MEN!!! We are macho but we are actually great posers. We love to sing the song "The Great Pretender"... pretending to be what we are not. We pretend so much that we forgot who are really are and what we are made to be. The Devil really has gotten some of us this way. The strong lion that God made us to be has now been "tamed" to be a kitten or to the other extent let loosed to be a wild raging bull.
But the bible teaches us that Real Man do not hide or run away.... They do not try to cover up the fears and weaknesses behind a girl by pushing her in front of them to face the circumstances they are too scared to face.
Real Men stand up to love, to protect and to serve.
The Lord meant for us to be leaders and lovers of our household and community. He wants us to rule with love and self -control.
In the process of healing, the Lord sometimes have to break the pride/the mask in us and open the wounds in us in order to rebuild what was lost and to re-mould what has been wrongly placed.
When the Lord confronted Jacob at Peniel, He wanted to heal Jacob of the facade Jacob has in his own strength. The Lord aimed a finishing blow at the part where Jacob was the strongest. He dealt Jacob with a blow that sent Hiim Limping. He struck Jacob's own fleshly and wrongly placed strength. And Jacob succumbed to God and was healed. He was named Israel and was greatly blessed. he no longer is the Jacobs that Deceives but has became Israel who is a Prince in God's Sight. Jacob received a renewed and true Identity of Himself in the Lord.
My Friends, let God heals us today. Let us not hide behind the image we have made for ourselves, let us be real before God and be healed. We are what God made us to be.... valiant, strong, passionate. Let's allow God to remove our masks and come face to face with our wounds. To remove the fleshly strength we are hiding behind and received new strength to lvie each day. The Lord loves us deeply and will never mishandle the trust we give to Him. He will guide and He will restore whatever we have lost and will make us what he is designed for us to be.
Psalm 62:11-12
"One thing God has spoken, two things have i heard: that you, O God, are strong, and that you, O Lord, are loving."
God Bless!
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