Having been a male for the last fifty-two years, I kind of thought I had it figured out what it meant to be a man. You know, go out and kill dinner and drag it home, have control of the house, etc…, etc…, etc…
I have learned that my wife was right – I am an idiot. Wait, Julie doesn't think I am an idiot, on the contrary she thinks I am quite smart. It's the stupid things that I do that at times that cause her to shake her head and think "idiot!" I call it the Ray Berone syndrome, if you have ever watch the sitcom named after Ray you know what I am talking about.
Before being in full time vocational ministry (an oxymoron BTW), I was in the work force in Accounting and Financial Management for a couple of Fortune 500 companies. I was making good money, had loads of responsibility and bought into that my identity was found and based on what I did for my livelihood. The scripture passage is so true in 1 Corinthians 13, "when I was a child(boy) I spoke like a child(boy), I thought like a child(boy), I acted like a child(boy). When I became a man, I put away childish(boyish) things, thoughts, and actions."
[callout]There is still a little boy in me and in most men. That is what I call the fun side of manhood. When the boy in me controls my life, I am going to be selfish, not generous. I will think of only my self and not others. Many men need to grow up and get rid of the boy in their life. That doesn't mean we can't go to football games or kill some animal and drag it home for dinner. But in the context of our relationship with our wife and children, we put them and their needs and wants first – way ahead of ours.[/callout]
When I was a boy, I never thought it would be so hard to be a man.
