Mighty Men, Men Of Valor, Men Of Honor, Men Of Renown

I have a dream, you see. I have a dream of a different thing. I have a dream of a new thing. I'm a believer you see. I'm a believer in the Spirit of men. I'm a believer in the realm of men. I'm a believer in the men of the west.

Times and measures are backwards now. Things don't look so well for the people of western civilization. We've gone off in search of many schemes. But this isn't the end. A decline isn't a fall.

If we're children of a benevolent creator, and I believe we are, then everything can change. Everything will change. We must believe it can. We must change. And we will.

We know the problem, don't we? Men used to be honorable. Men used to be brave, strong, and courageous. That is the natural state of men. We are to fight for honor, fight against evil, and uphold the good. We are to be the righteous heroes of the stories. Instead we've become the villains, predators of a kind, with no honor, no dignity, stalking weak willed women, inventing new ways of doing wrong, lazy, hopeless, and faithless. But it doesn't have to be that way.

I know, personally. I have a dual doctorate in despair and self destruction. It was fun for a while, sure. But eventually the raw heart begins to cry out for something more. Something different is required.

The Lord said in Isaiah 43:19 (ESV) Behold, I am doing a new thing;

now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?

I will make a way in the wilderness

and rivers in the desert.

What does it mean to be a man? It seems to me, to be a man is to be honorable. It means bravery and strength. To be a man means protecting the weak, and helping the poor. To be a man is to be a higher being, a Jedi knight, a chivalrous knight, a defender, a rider of Rohan, a soldier of Gondor. To be a Christian man, is to be something even greater. To be a Christian man is to be the crew of a hover ship, it is to be a revolutionary, a member of the Maquis, a Dutch resistance fighter, a loyalist, a patriot militia fighter, a hero on the battlefields of Europe.

One man, even one man can change the world. One man change everything. One man who believes and stands for something he believes in can change everything. God will bless that. The Bible is full of examples of God using a single person, or a few good men, who truly believed and sought a return to holiness, to change everything. He takes our small effort in faith and multiples it by a thousand. I've seen it happen in my life already. It's shocking and powerful. I'm genuinely shocked by it at times. Especially when I see it happen, months later, after a single prayer. Something huge in the USA changes, and I'm like woah. Was that God's answer to my prayer? Incredible.

I'll give you an example. One thing I like to do is share Christian stuff on my social media accounts. I have two Facebook accounts, Twitter accounts, and accounts on Pinterest, Goodreads, Academia.edu, Live Journal, Tumblr, YouTube, and Reddit. I found channels on YouTube mainly from the Veritas Forum, Cross Examined, and Reasonable Faith. I loved watching The Veritas Forum and many other channels to study their methods. Naturally I would share these videos a lot on social media. When I first started sharing videos from the Veritas Forum, and others, most of the Christian videos had maybe 3,000 to 8,000 views. These days when I watch those same videos, the views are up between 100,000 and 500,000. All we have to do is step out in faith, pray, share, and watch God do incredible things.

I digress, I digress. In the history of planet Earth, perhaps one of the most incredible men to walk the Earth was a man named David. He dropped goliath with a rock, remember that story? David had a troop with him in the wilderness, when he was on the run from all kinds of trouble. The scriptures record them as "David's mighty men." The saying is true that those who are with us during the hard times are the ones who will be with us in the good times. David had truly loyal friends. He had Jonathan, the dearest friend one could hope for.

Is that desire dead within the hearts of men? To be brave? To be honorable? To be the righteous hero against the forces of darkness? Must we become shadows? Must we flee all along the nights? Will there always be too many of them, and not enough of us? When is day break? When is the dawn?