He's got the car, the gadgets, the suit, the power and intimidation that men desire. Personally neither one of them does much for me, so I'll use the example of someone who does, Batman. True strength is found in surrender to the Lord of Lords.Ĭulture has painted to picture of a real man to be a loaner who needs no one. Look to the left of the page and you'll see the picture of a man on his knees with a hand raised to heaven. We were made to be connected to God, and there is no shame in needing Him, there is no shame in being completely dependent upon Him.
Once it falls off or is pruned it withers and dies. Gardening is a hobby of mine, and the stem, that central beam of a plant, is where every branch gets its source of life. We crave a soul-to-soul oneness with God, and we were made for this, "ours was meant to be a desperately dependent existence." We were made for unity with God, John points out Jesus saying He is the vine and we are the branches, and apart from Him we can do nothing. And true healing only comes when we find this unity with God. Our wound is deepened when we try to fix it ourselves apart from God. Our wound is caused when someone presents a false and corrupted image of God to us. We've all heard the cliches that have tried to communicate this message, but this is the deepest truth of our existence. God created us for union with himself: This is the original purpose of our lives." John uses this quote from Brennan Manning at the beginning of this chapter.
"The deepest desire of our heats is for union with God.
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