Men: The Truest Thing About You
By Kenny Luck
The truest thing about you is what God says is true.
Competing voices and forces are in a recruiting war over whose version of yourself you will accept, internalize, believe, and then put your energy behind. But when the man of God believes and acts upon what God says is true about him, an explosion of personal transformation occurs.
You abandon any image of yourself that is not from God.
You are not defined by your feelings.
You are not defined by your circumstances.
You are not defined by your successes or failures.
You are not defined by the car you drive, the money you make, or the house you say you own (the bank owns it, actually).
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You are defined–and redefined–by God and God alone (see Colossians 3:10).
In its purest essence, the dangerous good revolution is a revolution of your perspective on you!
But why? Why should I let God redefine me? Why should I release every last part of my will to this process? What will God do in my life if I say yes? If you are not asking these kinds of questions, you should. If I were being asked to accelerate my spiritual commitment to the level of “dangerous good,” I would want to know what I was getting into. What can I expect in real time and in my real life?
Fortunately, we have a complete picture available to us of what a dangerous good life looks like. Jesus came and lived His life as a man; as such, we have a model in real time for how a man lives out his truest identity. He came not only to show us that living for an audience of one is the right way to be, believe, and behave, but also to motivate us to do the same as men in our time and context. Masculinity starts and stops with Jesus. He is both alpha and omega male when it comes to living in front of God.
Jesus not only shows us what the dangerous good identity looks like but also helps us understand what being a man should feel like. That’s right–I just connected the words feel and man.Not to worry though, because what we see happening in Christ defies the gender-bending labels of today’s culture, transcending and overcoming them. Jesus brings masculinity to a place where cultural man cannot go but where every man on planet earth longs to be: a place where danger and good come together.
As you see Jesus, see yourself reproducing His life kin your context. This “identity-driven life” is your precise answer to how a man of God lives, what it means, and how it feels in the masculine context.
The dangerous good revolution is a movement of fearless, free, focused, and faithful men who are like Jesus.
Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. (John 14:12 NLT)
Faith content above is an excerpt from Kenny Luck’s book, Dangerous Good-The Coming Revolution of Men Who Care. Published with permission.
Pastor and author Kenny Luck founded Every Man Ministries in 2000 to revolutionize men’s ministry, free men spiritually and ignite spiritual health worldwide. His most recent book, Overflow: Setting the Holy Spirit Loose in the World You Live In is available now.