The Way To Go
Now Think On This
Steve Martin
John Eldredge, a popular author from Colorado,
came out with a book entitled, Wild At
Heart (Thomas Nelson, 2001). I loved the book! While it spoke tremendously
to the inner soul of men, I think some women also read it just to see what
happened to “their man” after he put it down. I recommend it to anyone.
Since then, John has authored and published at
least 14 more. I think I have read at least nine of them. There is just
something about his writings that so encourage men to be men. He even has a
book or two especially for women!
For my oldest son Josh’s wedding anniversary in
2015, I gave him one of Eldredge’s most recent books, Fathered By God (Thomas Nelson, 2009). At that time I hadn’t read
it myself, but knowing the quality and insight that John shares, I had no
hesitation in doing so. Up until a few years ago, I knew Josh had never read a
book completely through, so I carefully chose what I suggested or gave him (other
than my own books of course!) Josh is now 37 at the time of this writing.
I share that bit of factual news because Joshua
told me once he had never even read a book through high school. Oy! He had
since then worked to pay his way through school, married his beautiful bride
Chelse, has diligently been employed at his current job for 14 years, fathered
and is still raising four of our grandchildren, and is a very responsible man
of the Lord Jesus. Way to go Josh!
After he read the book, Josh sent me a text
saying he loved the book, and thought of me as a “sage.” My response, not
knowing the contents of the book, back to him was, “OK. What is a sage?” I’ll
leave the rest at that. I guess both you and I will have to read the book!
Sons are knowingly or unknowingly looking for
examples in which to model their lives. In this American culture of thinking
that the young have all the answers, and old men are just “old men”, they have not
rightly been given, nor received on their part, the training, experience, and
understanding of what it means to follow after the Lord, and knowing His ways.
Without fathers (over 33%, or 24 million
children in America had only a caring mother in the home, according to the U.S.
Census Bureau), young kids have not had that needed grown man in their personal
life, to train them to live for the Lord, be a responsible young man, work a
respectable job, find a good woman as their wife, raise a family, or give back
to society from which they owe much.
They do know how to play a video game hours on end. Wow, where is that going to get them? They have missed it. We are the ones responsible too for that
They do know how to play a video game hours on end. Wow, where is that going to get them? They have missed it. We are the ones responsible too for that
God the Father intended from the very beginning
that one generation would procreate and raise the next generation. One man
married to one woman has always been His plan. This “we know best” current
theology will never improve, or eternally replace, His perfect plan. His heart
has always been to have men be men and women be women. That is the path we must
stand strong for and walk on, as believers in the Lord Yeshua (Jesus).
Our sons and daughters, whom we have brought
into this world, need our wisdom, guidance, input and firm hand to point them
in the right direction. We are not to let them find it on their own. That
belief has not gotten them anywhere of lasting value. We must be the ones as
their lighthouse, raising them and then letting them go in the grace and
purpose of their eternal Father.
I give thanks for responsible fathers and
mothers who have trained up their children in the way they are to go. These young
ones will be those the Lord will anoint even more so to take the Gospel to
their own generation.
And He will also save many others, those currently
on their way to hell, who are living in an earthly one here, by demonstrating
His miraculous salvation and freeing them also to stand before the gates of
hell, taking back others on their way there.
Proverbs 22:6 truthfully reads, “Train up a
child in the way he should go. Even when he is old he will not depart from it.
(NASU)
For all this, we as believers give you thanks,
Father God, for showing us the way we have gone, and need to continue to go.
Something to think about.
Love you,
Steve Martin
Founder
Love For His People,
Inc.
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Now Think On This #209 “The
Way To Go” by Steve
Martin
Date: In the year of our
Lord 2015 (11.21.15) Saturday at 8:15 am in Charlotte, NC
All previous editions
of Now Think On This can be found on this
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