Iron Sharpens Iron

Gents,

Dammit guys I want us to be the same men in private that we are in public. I want us to always be on the never ending journey toward becoming men of integrity and true character with undivided hearts. Don’t you want to start feeling right about yourself for a change, not simply good from time to time?

Many of us have fallen into an alternate hidden life that runs on a dysfunctional cycle of sin management.

We are presented with opportunities, trials or challenges which test and refine our character along with the potential of developing integrity. We choose our fleshly desires without any real fight. We feel bad, isolate ourselves from God and usually from others. Then the sin hangover starts and lasts a couple days until time magically “heals” and we become “right” enough to come before God again to try do a better job next time.

I am starting to realize I am giving in way too easily and I am forgetting what there battles are for. God is daily presenting me with opportunities to grow. He’s inviting me on a journey where every victory can be used and every failure redeemed. God allows nothing to be wasted. He wants us to be people of the light where nothing is hidden in darkness. God is open and willing to journey with me. Now if I can only truly believe that... perhaps the cycle can be broken!

“The goal is to choose God consistently under pressure and thereby develop spiritual integrity.” Every Man, God’s Man pg. 25

I always say, or i actually just made it up... The greater the odds for failure, the great the opportunity for greatness

God show your glory through our lives. In a time were filth and impurities are so accessible, make us men of integrity the world has never known! Amen