Be A Man

If I can remind you once again, God is looking for a man. God is looking for a man who will care for the world around him. He is looking for a man to dare to make a difference and obey him. He is looking for a man who will follow through in his actions and see things through. He desires a man who would heed his strong warning and be an example in this life. He hasn’t asked most of us to go off to some foreign land but rather to be who we are, where we are, and make a difference. He is begging for a man who would be teachable and just learn how to trust him. He is still searching for a man who would live a life of righteousness and holiness before him and who would walk the walk of faith before others. God is searching for a man who will be what God wants for him to be, when God wants him to be it, and where he wants him to be. What he is searching for is someone who will give himself wholly to God. Paul said that we were to give ourselves as a living sacrifice, which is our reasonable service.

In the eleventh chapter of Ezekiel, we find an interesting portion of scripture. God had given Ezekiel some words to speak about destruction and then later told him that he would restore. It is what happens in between those two statements that is interesting. Ezekiel said that while he spoke, Benaiah’s son died. Ezekiel fell on his face and cried with a loud voice and said, “God, will you destroy them all?” Then it was that God said he would restore.

God is looking for a man who will stand in the gap and make up the hedge for the land, that he would not destroy it. Ezekiel is the man for whom God is looking. His life proves it. His actions declare it, and God is pleased. Again, in the thirty-seventh chapter, in the valley of dry bones, we find Ezekiel just being the man that God wants him to be and he promises great things to be accomplished.

I’m convinced that with God’s help, you also can be that man.

I don’t know that anything else needs to be said. Simply know this: you can be a man!