The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death. The battle is not between us and God no, there is a traitor within who wars against our true heart fighting alongside the Spirit of God in us: A new power is in operation. Yes, there is a war within us, but it is a civil war. In the core of your being you are a good man.
The New Testament calls you a saint, a holy one, a son of God. He wants to answer your Question.“The Big Lie in the church today is that you are nothing more than “a sinner saved by grace.” You are a lot more than that. Despite a man’s past and the failures of his own father to initiate him, God-as our Father-is fiercely committed to us, to the restoration and release of our masculine hearts. More importantly, it comes with the healing of the wounds that brought those answers and finding a new source of love and validation in his true Father. You are a failure, a idiot.” It gets worse from there.Īnd so the recovery of a man’s heart begins with coming to see the way in which his deepest question got answered and how that has shaped his life.
“Do I have what it takes?” Too often, the response back is silence, scorn, or ridicule: “I don’t know.I doubt it.you’ll have to find out for yourself.probably not.” In the case of violent fathers, the question is answered in a devastating way: “No. Our search for validation begins with our fathers a boy is meant to learn the answer to his core question from his dad and from the key men in his life. That’s why a man’s greatest fear is exposure-to be found out as a poser, an imposter, and not really a man. Even if he can’t quite put it into words, every man is haunted by the question, "Do I have what it takes?”Įvery man feels that the world is asking him to be something he doubts very much he has it in him to be.
A man’s search for validation is the deepest search in his life. Why do you suppose that when a boy learns to ride his bike with no hands or do his first back flip on a trampoline or hit his first home run, he wants his dad there to see it? And all the crazy things young men do-cliff jumping into rivers, racing motorcycles, all the sports competition-what is fueling all that? Our search for validation.
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