Impress me!

The David Alliance

 

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It would be hard for you to impress me… whoa whoa whoa… hold on - not for any reason you may think… in fact thats the point… if you want to impress me, its probably by something most of the world over looks.

 

If you have been following the podcast for any period of time, or even maybe from the beginning you realize that this podcast was based on research I did over the course of a few months and the three things I found out about men..

 - Men are incredibly lonely

 - Men only change when there is trauma

 - Masculinity is in short supply due to the lack of fathers in the last 60 years.

 

It is the perfect recipe for disaster… men don’t have fathers to turn to… they have not been taught how to have deep meaningful relationships with other men BECAUSE they have not had a Dad -role model this for them, they have become emasculated by the media and overbearing women AND…. they can’t change without major catastrophic trauma… and even then they most of the times choose not to change. Again this is why I have said to men for years… you choose your trauma while you can, or it will choose you.

It seems almost too late to do anything about it… but again there is God! 

David Shepherd boy, warrior, King… was a forgotten son. He was the youngest of seven brothers… his father was not a good father… and in fact when studying the story you might say Davids father was almost completely absent from his life. He had no close relationships growing up as evident by his brothers response when he came to battle.. so what did David do in order to become an amazing Manly man… yes a poor husband… but still a man used by God.   Well David had time on his hands watching those sheep. What did he do in that time alone? Here is the stripped down bare bones outline slash work out for being a man. 

He journaled, he prayed, he worshiped and he challenged himself by taking on bears and lions and he took on his meaningless job with purpose and focus as if serving God himself. 

I will state this again… he journaled, he prayed, he worshiped, he challenged himself (Bears and Lions is definitely choosing your own trauma) and he worked a meaningless job as if God depended on it. And he became a man… what would have happened if he had not done that and stood in front of Goliath… Im not sure, but I think it would have been ugly.

No great plan, no great science behind it… just daily disciplines and all for a God he knew. Consistency was the factor that made it happen, it was what God noticed you might say… so you sit here and you listen to the podcast and you think Im not going anywhere special, and Im not anyone special, I have no great annointing, I am not the first name that someone would mention is a Mans man or a man of God… - but what you may have, what I hope you have is consistency… consistency in what matters. Reading, praying, obeying and choosing your own trauma…

1 Samuel 16:7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

God is telling Samuel “hey you see all the dudes on instagram, tik tok, facebook, twitter and the like… the ones with the sweet ride, stacks of cash, 6 pack abs, hot flashy women, guitar wizards, rock stars, or even those with the big flashy ministry and churches, seemingly great marriage… God says I don’t look at that. I look at the heart… is the heart consistently going after me. God is saying I am more impressed by the guy who seeks me, loves me and consistently chooses my way over any other guy out there that might grab the worlds attention. 

What impresses you? I bet it doesn’t impress God… and maybe what impresses God doesn’t impress you.