Blogging Again

It has been a long time, over a year, since I have last blogged. In my quiet time today I was thinking of all the men that God has brought into my life. Some have joined in the journey and others are still where they use to be. One man that is on the journey with me called yesterday because I was on his mind and he has done this a couple of time over the past few weeks, he called and weather he knew it or not he encouraged me to continue on this journey of following after God and leading other men to do the same. He reminded me of some seeds of truth that I had planted in him over a year ago, maybe even 2 years ago, and he let me know that those seeds are growing in his life. One of the hardest things in ministry is that you minister to others but sometimes you rarely know if it is really making a difference or not. I think from this story, Father is telling me, "hey son, you just keep planting seeds and leave the rest to me". Once again it is about trust, Father says do what I ask of you and trust me to do the rest. The past 3.5 years have been all about trusting Father more and more, I hope I am making some progress.

So, here we go again, starting to blog. Why? Because men are loners. We tend to want to do things on our own. We tend to think that we don't need anyone else. We tend to think that we can fix all things and do all things all by ourselves. And this............ is what gets us in so much trouble. It's what puts us in a place of being all alone, and when we are all alone......the enemy knows it and goes to work. But, if we can recognize this and be intentional about being around other brothers on a regular basis, and if we can reach out to another brother when we are struggling then we will not be fighting the battle on our own. We were not created to live this life with its struggles all alone, we were created to be in relationship with one another.

Men, we must overcome this obsession with doing life alone, we must put aside our pride and our ego, we must put aside everything that causes us to stand alone and we must stand together. This reminds me of the scene from the movie Gladiator when they are in the arena about to face the enemy and Maximus tells the men, "no matter what comes through those gates, we must stand together". So men, no matter what comes at us we must stay together in order to stay alive. Being by yourself will lead to death.