Wrecking Wimps by Building Character
Posted by bucksot on July 19, 2009
Andrew Bucksot – Leadership
I was ministering to 600 young people in Progreso, Mexico when I made a plea for all of the young men to walk away from their boyhood and begin to walk and live as men of God. These young men ranged from thirteen to eighteen years old. As I told them that today was the day for them to become men, they came running to the altar to stop being wimps for the world and become champions for God.
They were challenged to be men who would follow after God, and allow God to wreck the wimp status that the world had tried to place upon them. I challenged them to become champions for God’s kingdom and live righteous before their Creator.
Dozens of young men ran to the alter to give their lives to the One who gave His life for them. It is time that God wrecks wimps and builds champions, but first those who are male by birth, must allow God to make them men after His own heart.
A man is a person who allows his character to be formed through obeying God and by making decisions that will glorify Him. When a decision is made to glorify God a man’s character is built. The more he makes a decision to follow God’s eternal plan and His kingdom principles, the more that man begins to take on the character of God.
Character is not about being in the spotlight, or having a title or a name. Character is about forming the likeness of Christ through decisions that lift up and glorifies Jesus Christ. Character seeks to become humble and then shun pride and self reliance.
Character is about becoming a servant and leading other people to levels of greatness that they could never achieve alone. It is about establishing God’s kingdom in one’s own heart and establishing His kingdom throughout the nations of the world.
Character is about a man who takes responsibility for his actions. A male becomes a man when he accepts responsibility for both the right, as well as the wrong he has done. He does not excuse his behavior, rather admits his failures, confesses his mistakes and throws himself at the feet of the One who rescued his soul from death’s sting and horrible lie of sins deception.
Character in a man causes him to launch out into the deep of not knowing and then presses on and never give up. No matter how dark and difficult life gets God’s champions press on without ever giving up. A man of God’s character does not give up on God, because he knows that God would never give up on him.
Character makes a man build something greater than a man’s own name or fame. A true man of God is more interested in building God’s kingdom than his own kingdom. A man of God’s character sees the greatness of God’s eternal plan as more important than his own plans and pursuits.
Character causes the man of God to obey God’s word no matter how ridiculous or foolish is may seem to those around him. To obey God’s word is to obey the One who is greater than himself. To obey God’s word is to live for a greater purpose than a world of personal satisfaction, ease and entertainment.
Character is what shapes a person who was born a male, into a person who is called to be a man. A man of character is a person who refuses to bow his knee and close his mouth to perversity and wrong living. He does not accept abnormality as normal. He does not allow a politician or an activist to direct his steps or control his destiny.
Character is what gives a man the courage to call what is wrong, wrong and raise the standard to expect people to respond to live right and become righteous in their lives, with their families and in their profession.
Character gives a man the courage to stand against all accusation and persecution and insist that God’s rule for marriage and relationships is the right way. That man stands strong against those who promote males to be wimps, homosexuals and weak and calls them instead to be men of character, heterosexual and strong for God.
A man of God is one who has allows God to wreck his life as a wimpy male, in order to become a strong man of courage and honor. Allow God to build you into the champion you were called to be. Make a decision right now that you will allow God to take you where you could never go without His grace and mercy.
