To be a man move in the darkness with His light.

The blog this morning comes from my working through a book from Larry Crabb called "The Silence Of Adam" that helped me immensely in discovering what is a real man.

Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his GOD. Isaiah 50: 10-11

There is something in a man that takes on the giants that goes into the dark of night with courage.
In Alaska the grizzly bears come around our homes in the middle of the night. They have broken through windows and doors to get what they want.
The job of driving these buggers off falls on my neighbor Ken Wolff who often calls me and we have a great adventure finding the bears and scaring them out of town with special noise making shotgun shells.
This event has it all for a man, it is dark, there is the unknown of where the bear is, danger you could get eaten and the sense of the greater good of protecting the town. And it has the comradely of sharing it with a friend.
Grizzly bear stories allows one to face his own immortality which is built into a man to do. The old I stared death in the face stuff.
To our wives waiting at home for us to return, they're probably thinking who has a bigger dork than I do for a husband. But for us it's a grand adventure of ultimate manhood. grunt, grunt.

Being a man in Christ, life's grizzly size problems have slammed us in the dark.
The black night can stay for a long time, with life altering decisions.
But we men were created to step into the dark, trusting in faith to GOD.
Do I have what it takes as a man to face in the black of night this bear or situation?
These men speak into the darkness with strength from GOD instead of their own physical prowess of control.
They don't have to over power, they walk with he who is power,and they are talking and asking in real time to GOD who is their wisdom.
They can take the incredible confusion of people relationships with their petty, mean actions and speak light into the darkness not because of who they are but because of who GOD is inside them.
True men are men courageous enough to walk in the black of night because they know who they have given their life to.
A GOD who doesn't always explains the reasons why, but has assured us of himself a million times over that he is enough and is able to do far more than we could ever think or imagine.
A man without GOD gets to hate, feel hopeless, lusts, denies. He will choose lust for that way he doesn't have to live in the present.
True men in the dark, admit they don't know what to do and look to GOD and keep looking to GOD, single minded they move through the darkness.
When hunting for bears in the black of night you cannot see but you can hear. The same is true for the black confusion in life, we cannot see a way out, but we still can hear and sense GOD in us, so we move on with purpose following in the black He that has no darkness.
"Walking by faith is being led by GOD with a confidence in a GOD we trust but can never control. Whatever objectives or problems that come along our path becomes matters for prayer, while our energy is devoted to pleasing GOD, not making something happen."
Bottom line: you cannot follow if you're leading your own life.

Trusting GOD is often birthed in darkness, just like so much of creation was formed before there was light.

"When all is unclear and I ask what should I do? I decide what best reflects the character of GOD and move accordingly. Be courageous, be wise, be imaginative. You love GOD. Do something."