Mentored

"So Moses arose with Joshua his servant, and Moses went up to the mountain of God." -Exodus 24.13

Moses is about to go meet with God and receive the stone tablets of the Law. As he prepares to go he calls for Joshua, his servant, and brings him with him up the mountain. We don't know yet if Moses knew Joshua would be his successor and lead the people, but we see Moses, an older, wiser man, taking a younger man and helping him encounter God.

Moses was a mentor to Joshua. We don't know the conversations they had, but it is clear that Moses is pouring into this young man. He is entrusting him with tasks, like leading the army of Israel into battle, and he is bringing him along to the mountain where God is. Oh that all young men would have a man to do this for them.

This is my passion, and I believe my calling. I'm at a place in life now that is full of preparation. I'm getting ready to attack my Master's degree, and trying to work through some initial plans for reaching out to men of all ages to help them become the men that God created them to be. That's really how this blog came to be, but this is just a small part of what I hope is coming.

Men, have you had someone pour into you? Has there been that man who has entrusted you with an important task, and helped you learn to encounter God? Who are they? What did they do that has helped make you the man that you are? Now what will you do with that? Will you take it, and begin to pour it into others? Our world is full of boys with no one to teach them what it means to be a man. There are sons with no fathers to guide them, or fathers who can't guide them because they were never guided.

We all can share stories of abandonment. We can all share stories of being set up for failure. We can all share stories of being micromanaged. These are all attacks on our masculinity, but they don't have to be fresh wounds. They can heal into scars, and they can become tools to use. These experiences that each of us have had are resources for us to pour into the lives of others.

Who was your Moses? Who are your Joshua's? God created us to be mentored and to mentor. This journey was meant to be passed down from generation to generation, with the older teaching and leading the younger in a cycle that went on and on. But somewhere the cycle was broken, and that's how we ended up in the situation we're in today. Let us reclaim that cycle. Let us allow God to bring healing and mentoring to us, so that we may mentor the next generation and guide them into manhood.

Who can you mentor?

"Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another."

To God alone be the Glory!

Strength and Honor