Message to Men

We have now been back in the states for 1 year and one of the things that has become apparent to me is the void of spiritual men in our land.  I am referring to men who fight for injustice, truth, their family, who are servants, full of integrity, and are willing to lead their families instead of their wives.  This could very well be the real crisis of the church and why our culture has the issues that it has.

About 10 years ago, my grandfather gave me a book that had impacted him significantly during the middle part of his ministry years.  I have not looked at it in about 7 years until last night.  As I read some of it this morning, I was struck by the words from Leonard Ravenhill in his book "Meat for Men".  Read this quote from page 19.

"God hungry men find God.  As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so the souls of the Upper-Room crowd panted for the living God.  Spiritually naked, they fled to Him that they might be clothed upon with the blessed Spirit.  Empty, they craved to be filled.  Powerless, they tarried until they were endued.  Bankrupt and beggar-like, they pled the riches of His grace.  Then this fear-filled crowd became fire-filled messengers.  Though swordless, these soldiers of Christ fought the might of imperial Rome and won.  Though without ecclesiastical prestige, they opposed the frozen orthodoxy of sterile Judaism and pierced it to the heart.  Unlettered, they unblushingly declared the whole counsel of God and eventually staggered the intellectual Greeks.  Without question, the greatest need of this hour is that the Church shall meet her ascended Lord again, and get an enduement that would usher in the revival of revivals just before the night of nights settles over this age of incomparable corruption."

We need to become men as described above.  Our churches, communities, and nation need men who pant for God and who are empowered with God to win the cultural and spiritual battle we face right now.  Where are these men?  I want to be counted among them.  How about you?