This is my father's world.

So my little world is prettymuch captured in this photo. (cute aint he?). I have to admit. When I found out we were having a baby boy a year ago, I was pretty excited and releived. I thought to myself "boys are easier than girls, especially during puberty!"...

This past sunday I listened to a Mark Driscol sermon (cause with Josiah's weird feeding schedule, it doesn't always work for us to go to church, especially since I have to pump with every feed...makes things tricky). Anyway! The sermon was about Mark's upcoming book "the resurgence"... it actually sounds pretty interesting. In this particular sermon, Mark was calling a challenge to all the men as fathers, in a world where men don't have to be men. Many men are just boys, with a man's freedom of choice and speech... which is a very dangerous concept. That wasn't the whole sermon, but that's what stuck out to me.

I don't want to raise a full grown adult boy. I want to raise a man of God. That is a scary thought. In today's society, boys dont need to grow up. In today's feminist society, men don't have a clearly defined role anymore, and it's easy to see why many men struggle even in their own families to be... well, to be the man! The women have become the men. They work, they call the shots, they handle the books, they raise the kids, and then complain to the men that they aren't helping out...

WELL EXCUSE ME BUT WHO IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE HELPER??? I believe God assigned the helping role to women if I am not mistaken. I can't help but feel that the way things are going, is a result of the fall, when God said that A woman's desire will be for her husband (as in, her desire is to lord over him, not like a longing loving desire...). It would seem that woman is winning right now...but it is at the expense of men it would seem...

So many men don't have an identity. It's like "why go to college? women do that now"... why get a career? we'll both work,  and it'll all be fine. And then Men (boys) continue to live like boys, pursuing boy-ish pleasures, and not growing up to be men... Providing for their families, earning the respect of their wives, through their actions, love and servanthood. Being a real father, not just a live-in sperm donor.

I am honestly a bit scared to raise a son in today's world. I don't think all the parenting books in the world could prepare today's christian parents for this one... let alone how to tackle the whole issue of lust, and respecting women in todays world of un-respectable women...

Well, Josiah's awake so this entry is done for now... Just a bit of venting! It's God's world, and I am having faith that he will play a role in the solution to these worries on my heart.