Understanding the Purpose and Power of Men

Understanding the Purpose and Power of Men

How do you usually greet your children in the morning? With a quiet reminder of God‘s love and strength for the day? What spiritual armor do you send them off to school with? It‘s a difficult world for children to grow up in today, and they need God‘s Word to fo rtify them.

5. “Tie Them as Symbols on Your Hands and Bind Them

on Your Foreheads. Write Them on the Door

frames of Your Houses and on Your Ga tes.”

The point God is trying to make in the above passage is that whatever your hands find to do, make sure it is in ac cordance with the Word. Whatever is in your thoughts, make sure it‘s the Word of God. “The doorframes” — I like that. The doorposts in M oses‘ day were two major posts that held up the frame of the house. Anyone who came through those doorposts came into your home. This means that all of your house should be held up by the Word of God, and that you are supposed to check who comes into your house to make sure they pass through the Word of God. God is saying to fathers and young men who aspire to be good fathers, ―Get the Word in you. Plaster your whole life with the Word.‖ If anybody wants access to your life or your home, he is to come through the Word of God. If any woman wants to marry you, tell her straight, ―If you don‘t know God and His Word, I don‘t care how cute you look or how much you can give me —forget it.‖ I would love for God to raise up men who wouldn‘t co m promise, who wouldn‘t marry a woman who‘s not a woman of God. Sometimes we don‘t have any standards. We have to have standards and values again. Our values come from what we believe. They create our morals and affect our behavior. If we believe the Word of God, that‘s our valu e system.

The Male as Cultivator

Knowing the Word of God is also essential for men if they are to fulfill their responsibility as cultivators of the spiritual and personal lives of their family members.

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