When Men Let Their Guard DownSýnishorn

Day Five – Keep Your Daily Appointment with God

For the enemy to get to the valuables in your city, he must come through you. When you are the wall, you can’t afford to wander off in the wilderness for three days. When the enemy entices you to indulge in online porn, to cheat on that business deal, to pursue those selfish pleasures, consider the fallout and how it will impact you and all the people you love.

The enemy will wait and lull us into complacency and then—BAM!—ambush us like a predator striking its prey.

Isn’t that where men get into trouble? We convince ourselves we have everything under control and slack off from keeping ourselves anchored and seeking God. We do life our own way, thinking we can handle it in our own strength and wisdom or that we’re too busy to spend time with the Lord.

As with David and his band of men, often it’s a subtle shift, almost a subconscious drifting. We get lazy or tired and then distracted. When we insist on doing life on our own, we get lost—we lose, and the ones we love the most lose too.

Seeking God must be a priority. When we keep God first, He helps order our lives so those things that He values most are what we value most and spend our time on.

Look at the world around you. Walls are broken down mostly because men’s personal walls are broken down and they have left the scene. This has allowed the enemy to waltz in and take captive their prized possessions. We’ve seen the devastating effects of what happens when men are out of the picture.

We know the enemy wants to strip us of our masculinity and take us out. Why? It’s because men are matter and men matter.

This is why now more than ever men need strong personal walls.