GOD is having me to examine what is real strength. I think a lot of us have it twisted.
We have a history of calling weakness and fear, strength.
Hunh?
A strong sister, we say, has sas, verve and a mouth. She doesn't take it, from anyone.
But that isn't what the Bible says strength is. The Bible portrays a sister as a woman who is strong enough to care for her family, lead the home, run her won business, and yes (a bad word in this day) strong enough to submit to her husband whom she loves and whom she knows loves her.
She is not deaf, dumb and blind. She is not a doormat. But she isn't some loudmouth, either. The world has said that is what being a strong sister is, but I'm starting to wonder. Loudmouth sisters get real tiring, real quick.
A strong brother, we say, is paid. He is athletic, drives a big car, and pastors a huge church. He has his own business. He preaches all the time. He has a lot of sisters interested in him.
But the Bible CLEARLY says that a man's life doesn't consist of the things he possesses. The Bible talks of holiness, integrity, character as being the hallmarks of a strong man. A strong man is man enough to live with a wife who maybe is difficult sometimes. Strong enough to help someone else along in ministry sometimes.
A brother always centered on his business, his basketball games with his friends, him SELF is real boring, real quick.
I'm re-evaluating what strength is. Godly strength, not what man has latched onto because the world thinks it is exciting.
Real strength must not be in putting other people in their place the first time they do you wrong. It is in forgiving, overlooking an offense.
Any teenage boy can get excited over multiple sisters, taking about what he needs.
It takes a real man to say with ONE woman, always being everything SHE needs financially, romantically, emotionally.
Any idiot can change jobs everytime someone doesn't appreciate you, steals your ideas, tries to freeze you out. It must take a strong person to weather the storms of a career, staying there and getting the pay raise anyway, retiring after twenty or thirty years.
I think what we as a people call strength is really hidden dysfuction.
I'm re-evaluating what strength is.
Be Blessed
BBoy
