God Likes Tough Guys
Monday
Oct 26, 2009
I’ve been through basic training. I won an all expenses paid trip to Iraq for a year. I’ve been in some crazy situations with some really tough guys, and some really wimpy guys. I’ve been there with a few Godly men, but mostly not. Growing up in modern America, and the portrayal of men on TV, there is a picture of what the modern man looks like. However, that contrasts with what the Bible shows.
Abraham—at an age when he’s supposed to be collecting social security—leads an elite team of commandos to rescue his inbred cousin Lot. Phinehas the priest takes a spear and impales an Israelite and his “from the wrong part of town” girlfriend, and God blesses him for it! David decides to go above and beyond the 100-foreskin requirement to marry Saul’s daughter, Michal, and decides to cut 200 Philistine foreskins!
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The final picture of war we have in our Bibles is when Christ returns, wielding a sword that comes out of His mouth, splattered with the blood of His enemies before He tosses them into the eternal lake of fire and sulfur (Revelation 19).
Al Lobaina discusses Jesus At War over at The Resurgence. It brought back the thoughts that I’ve often had of Jesus. Commonly portrayed as a slender guy, I wonder if that’s really accurate. He walked everywhere, and he was a carpenter before there were power tools. Wouldn’t you think he’d be ripped, even kind of a hunk? After all, he is the Son of God.
As you look around at today’s culture, and compare it to the Godly men in the Bible, what do we need to be doing now to get back to where we need to be?
