Living with Heart: From Birth to Death 53 - The 12 Movements - #3 A Man Remembers How He is Made
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Endurance and Perseverance are different:
Endurance is the ability to “take the blows” that life delivers.
Perseverance is that and more; it is the ability to fight back.
We are created to persevere, but we need to learn how, and we need help to know how.
We have to practice asking for help.
A Man Remembers How He is Made:
- A man needs to admit every day, with deep awareness, that he is not God, and is created by God. He did not create himself. He was created.
- An inspired man, versus just one who is ambitious, knows that he is in service of something greater than himself, a mission that his heart is “called” to.
- A man humbly faces his need of God, and he does not attempt to take credit for what he did not create.
Therefore, a man serves a higher authority and a higher purpose than himself, and he orders his life accordingly as was discussed in Episode #52.
In serving a higher authority and purpose, a man contends with three areas of struggle, as part of the purpose of living with passion, intimacy, and integrity.
- He brings full hearted presence into a society and “world” that often lacks the heart leadership.
- He brings advocacy; he speaks up for issues and people who suffer in silence or suppression.
- He brings order into chaos or destructive influences.
No man succeeds alone. He needs the help of others; he needs their encouragement, wisdom, and strength. He also needs God’s encouragement, wisdom, and strength to keep him inspired to persevere in his purpose.
Surrender is vital for a man to succeed and persevere. Surrender does not mean defeat. The word means to “render over,” or “give back.”
Much of our society teaches self-reliance and self-sufficiency, when actually a man needs to hand himself over to God, as in surrender himself to God, to be the strength and courage that he needs to live his purpose.
A man who attempts to live self-sufficiently or with self-reliance only needs to surrender to God who can do so much more with His strength in a man than the man can ever do on his own.
The “Living with Heart” podcast series on Codependency is vital to grasping the difference between self-reliance and God-reliance. Episodes #32 - # 44.