Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. Carl Jung, Hollis, A Life of Meaning
Fight:
- Despair with hope
- Loneliness with community
- Shame with vulnerability
- Lust with faithfulness
- Ambition with kingdom values
- Futility with calling
- Apathy with a cause
The Enemies of Life
They are fear and lethargy
Si we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?” Hebrews 13:6
A man’s potential can slowly die while he amuses himself to death.
2 Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. Revelations 3:2
Wake up! Finish the fight!
Refuse to Exchange Sustainability for Mediocrity
I don’t want you to trade burning out for not burning at all.
Do not retire from manhood. Do not fall back into a second childhood.
Yes, there is observable risk in following God’s call in our lives, but do not let that creeping fear prevent us from obeying. Do not surrender your call for the sake of living a sustainable, “normal”, life.
Become a Man the World needs
This is Jon and Jefferson’s definition of manhood:
We need men who see themselves as image bearers and sons of God — those entrusted with power and responsibility to create, cultivate, care, and defend our world for God’s glory, their joy, and the good of others — men like the one Jesus is forming you to become.
Searching for a Man
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God. C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
14 Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.[a] Romans 13:14 (NIV)
Be the man God desires me to be, live out his will in my life.
Takeaways
Ah. It is good to finally be at the conclusion. It feels like I’ve read this book twice, having to review all my annotations and take my notes.
Be mindful and remember the fight: Wake up, be opposed to the enemy, do not give into mediocrity, and faithfully live out the bold life God is calling us to live. Become the man God has intended us to be, for the sake of ourselves and the world.
