Man of God

For a little over a year now this blog has been on my heart and mind. Early this morning in the moments between sleep and awake the title and address came to me so I feel its the time to start it. Part of my desire in life is to minister to boys and men, helping them see what God created a man to be, and how to become a man of God.

For this blog I'm going to focus on looking at what the Bible says to men. What does God say a man is? At some point, maybe first (we'll see how I'm being led), I'm going to walk through Wild at Heart and The Way of the Wild Heart, two books I've referenced frequently on my other blog, which focus on boys and men becoming men.

The phrase "Man of God" occurs 73 times in the Bible. The first is found in Deuteronomy 33.1 in reference to Moses. The last is found in 2 Timothy 3.17. "All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work." 2 Timothy 3 takes a statement, a title, that was given to Moses, and offers it to all men.

1 Timothy 6.11-13 tells us, "But flee from these things, you man of God, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance and gentleness. Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate, that you keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which He will bring about at the proper time—He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen."

A man of God flees evil and purses righteousness and the things of God. He fights the good fight, standing for what is right. He has taken hold of the life that is available through Jesus Christ and lived it out before others. His life is lived to become like Christ and and to help others become like Christ to the glory of God.

That's what we are all to be. That is what God created the man to be. And so let us become Men of God.

To God alone be the Glory!

Strength and Honor