Defy Culture // Identify Deception In Your Lifeഉദാഹരണം
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Trust No One
The Apostle Paul set a challenge before us: “having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor” (Ephesians 4:25). No small thing, that one. We men have such a hard time with transparency, with vulnerability. “I don’t know you guys that well.” “I have a hard time trusting other people.” “I don’t know everyone here.” These and objections like them surface naturally in men facing the prospect of being transparent and vulnerable with brothers in community. We’ve all said them, in some version or another. But, this approach of hesitating; waiting to open up; and waiting to tell our brothers what’s really going on, what we’re afraid of, and what we’re struggling with until we have complete trust of the men we’re opening up, to is foolish and based upon misplaced trust.
You see, we can trust no man completely. All “have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). So, waiting for complete trust means waiting for something that’ll never happen. We’re all broken, capable of wickedness even toward those we love most. God, however . . . God is not. So, in Him and in Him only, brother, should we put our trust (Psalm 118:8). He calls us to be transparent, vulnerable with others; so we must. Now, it might not always go well (at least from our perspectives). That’s okay. It’ll go well from God’s perspective—our obedience to Him always does. And, He knows better than we do.
Okay, so what do we do?
Next time you meet with a brother or two or three, look around. Which of them do you trust more than God? In that moment, tell yourself: “I trust God. So, I know what I must do” No more lies. No more pretending. No more posturing.
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We men often find ourselves caught up in the culture of this age and trusting too much in money, material things, status, and sex. The thing is, trust like that leads to misery and isolation and death. But turning, and trusting God instead, leads to joy and connection and life. Start this four-day plan to root out the lies you’ve been believing and join hundreds of thousands of men reading WiRE.
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