Well I have spent the day recovering from Thanksgiving and the subsequent Black Friday. The last few weeks have been jammed full of classes and life, but overall I haven’t felt like I’ve had an incredible amount to write about. So hopefully I have a few readers left that check in occasionally. Anyway I went over to a friend’s house for Thanksgiving, and we had a wonderful meal with his family hanging out an such. Also TG happened to be my 21st Birthday, according to statistics nationally I’m a walking miracle to be a man in my early twenties who loves Jesus. That’s sad really. The lack of men in the Church of America is a very real and very depressing reality. Maybe we could chalk it up to culture or maybe to the breakdown of the family in our society or maybe ultimately it is a result of a great failing of the Church. Relatively speaking there are no MEN in the Church. I’m talking about a great crisis, because if men are supposed to lead, then when men, who are typically made to lead, are in short supply that means that other people, women, who can lead, but were ultimately not supposed to have to lead, must step up and lead. I think this problem stems from the greater problem that the Church has lost the knowledge of the fear of God. I postulate this reason because the Church often has a Jesus who is weak not meek. One should know that above all else Jesus wasn’t weak. But what man who wants to be a man would serve a God that he perceives as being weak. Someone that he could beat-up. We instead need to implore God to once again make real to us the knowledge of the fear of Him. The problem of the fear of the Lord is that it defines so much of what we really like to have in God. Like how can we ever begin to grasp the Grace of God if we forget the wrath of God against sin, which produces fear. How can we ever see God as all-powerful and worthy of worship if we forget to fear Him. Now the fear of God is not cowering, afraid, and fearful, but rather a reverence and respect for the Lord and His power. Maybe if we grasped the power and wrath of God against sin, like in Revelation when Christ comes back with a robe dripping with blood, and a sword coming out of His mouth to slay the transgressors, then more men would be willing to serve and give their all for God. Likewise if we had and have a healthy fear of God then maybe sin wouldn’t run rampant in the Church, we wouldn’t have these massive delineations from the word (Homosexual Churches?), and the world on the outside wouldn’t have such massive complaints against us like we don’t live what we preach. If we must pray anything, pray that God would once again instill in His people the fear of Himself.
Warren
