A Man's Deepest Question

A Father and a son went up rock climbing and the son had a fear reaching top afraid that he won't make it again. With gentle reassurance, the father told him to head back down and that he knew another one that might be more fun. "No," the son said, "I want to do this." the father understood.

 There comes a time when we simply have to face the challenges in our lives and stop backing down.

So the father helped him up the overhang with a bit of a boost, and on the son went up with greater speed and confidence. With the father's  advice and exhortations the son sailed right over the challenging spots. A few more moves and he would be at the top. "Way to go son. You're a wild man!" the father shouted. The son finished the climb and finally made it to the top. As the son walked down from the back side the father began to clipped in his other son for a climb. Ten or 15 minutes passed, and the story was forgotten to the father. But not the son. While the father was coaching his other son up the rock, the son sort of sidled up to the father and in a quiet voice asked, "Dad... did you really think I was a wild man up there?"

There's something you can see in the boy's heart. Something unleashed. Something wild. It's not a question -- its the question, the one every boy and man is longing to ask.

Do I have what it takes?

Am I powerful?

Until a man knows he's a man he will forever be trying to prove he is one, while at the same time shrinking from anything that might reveal he is not. Most men live their lives haunted by the question, or crippled by the answer they've been given.

What kind of answers did you receive from your questions lately? Do you feel like being crippled from it? 
What is that rock in your life that is challenging to climb and that you're backing down? 
Time to face it. God gives us the strength and enough for us to see the masculinity in us. You're a man and not trying to prove it. Don't shrink. Prove it.

Philippians 4:13"I can do everything through him who gives me strength"------ excerpt from the book "Wild at Heart"


thanks for reading
- jm