Men on Purpose

Dan Edelen over at the Cerulean Sanctum blog posted an article last week entitiled "Purpose- And Why Christian Men Don't Always Live Theirs". What I found astounding about it was what he shared when he wrote - "I would say that at least 70 percent of the Christian men I know have this nagging feeling that they’re not doing what they are supposed to be doing. And this usually means in their careers, in their walk with the Lord, or in both". I never would have expected this number to be that high for men in their careers. For Christian men who have been laid off or have retired, it probably wouldn't be quite so surprising. Is a career and a man's walk with the Lord that inter-related? I definitely think so if we look at the matter of what "a calling" is. I'm not sure whether to label this under work or put it within the retirement posts? Here is more of what Dan wrote:

At a small group meeting this weekend, we watched a video on bettering one’s marriage. One of the comments the speaker made concerned finding one’s purpose in God, and that this purpose comes from no one else.

And this bothers me. Not because it’s not true, but because one of the most common discussions I have with other Christian men concerns their nearly universal sense of purposelessness. In fact, I would say that at least 70 percent of the Christian men I know have this nagging feeling that they’re not doing what they are supposed to be doing. And this usually means in their careers, in their walk with the Lord, or in both.

I brought this issue up in the discussion that followed the video, and the general response was that men who felt that way were not close enough to God or else they wouldn’t feel that way. God doesn’t leave people twisting in the wind, they say.

Sadly, I think that’s the common perception. But I think there’s a deeper issue here.

Many of the Christian men who struggle with their sense of purpose do so not because they haven’t already caught a vision from God, but because they have. The problem there is they have no sense of how to make that vision a reality, especially when confronted with a common set of dilemmas. Ask a Christian man who struggles with purpose what he suspects the problem might be, and I believe he’ll give you one of these five answers:

Read the entire article HERE