“When King David was dying, he said to his son
Solomon, ‘. . . Be strong, and show
yourself a man, and keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in his ways
and keeping his statues, his commandments . . .’
Showing himself a
man meant doing what God said. That’s what it means today. There will be plenty
of opposition. Righteousness has never been popular. You’ve got to be willing
to look like some kind of nut, some of the time, because you won’t be doing
what everybody else is doing . . . A woman wants a man who is capable of
standing up to her. She wants him to be a godly sort—I didn’t say a pious sort. That is, she wants him, like
Daniel, to have his ‘windows open,’ and like Jesus, to have his ‘face set’
toward Jerusalem. If that’s the direction he’s headed, his obedience will be
her liberation.”
The Mark of a Man, Elisabeth Elliot, page 133, 136
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Dear brothers in
Christ,
Hi! ((( waves small, awkward
hand )))
Whoever you are, where
ever you are, set your face toward obedience to Christ. I know, I know . . .
full obedience and submission to Christ will probably make you “finish last,”
at least in the world’s eyes. I realize that you will be called odd, abnormal,
and strange. You may wonder why, just for once, you couldn’t be like everyone
else--why you couldn't take the easy route.
But in the end, it
is the Daniel’s, the Joshua’s, and the David’s who make ripples, or tidal waves, in the face of eternity.
These are the (fallible, feeble) men who, despite all opposition, change their worlds and the homes they lived in.
Be the men you were
created to be,
