Understanding the Purpose and Power of Men

The Male as Provider and Protector

homesick, and feels as if his life is falling apart, he can call his father and hear him say, ―Son, it‘s going to be okay.‖ Suddenly everything comes into place because Dad spoke a reassuring word. When a wife becomes frustrated or emo tional about what‘s happening in the family, her husband can say, ―God says He‘ll be here for us, and I will be here for us, too.‖ That‘s a man‘s respons ibility.

Designed to Protect

A male is a natural protector. Through these attributes, he is designed to protect everything he is responsible for:

1. physical strength 2. logical thinking 3. a sense of territorial protectiveness 4. a drive to excel or ―ego‖

1. Physical Strength

The male‘s bone structure and upper body strength is designed to defend, protect, and guard. Now, even if a man isn‘t tall or extremely muscular, he seems to have inner physical resources that enable him to defend. A man‘s wife should be able to run to him any time trouble comes. ―Only 102 pounds, but that‘s my man. If you touch me, he‘ll have your head .‖ The safest place for a woman should be in the arms of her husband. Yet one of the saddest things I‘ve seen is men abusing their strength. Instead of using it to protect women, they use it to destroy them. When I think of a man hitting a woman, my whole body turns into a boiling pot of indigna tion. God gave him muscles to protect her, not to hurt her. Paul said that a man should love his wife as Christ Je sus loves His church: as his own flesh. Can you imagine Jesus slapping His church? I have a little recommendation to all men who are tempted to physically abuse women: any time you feel like slapping or hitting them, do the exact thing to yourself first. After a couple of hits, you won‘t hit anybody. Any man who beats a woman is abusing his God given faculties.

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