Man-hood

I'm watching football with my dad right now.  Meaning, I'm watching the game, and my dad is working hard on his computer.  So this is a mix of adrenaline/testosterone and male role models like my dad, but I've decided that I want to be a man. 

I don't mean that I want to be allowed to smoke pipes, or drink Miller Genuine Draft 64.  I'm not even talking about having a wife someday.  In fact, my future wife will not be mentioned after this.  It's that serious.  Just know that I'll be thinking about her.

But really, the topic of man-hood and being an adult has been controlling my mind a lot lately.  I feel like God really wants me to grow up and take responsibility.  Here's what I've decided that man-hood is to me:

Responsibility.  I really want to be responsible.  I want more weight on me, so that I HAVE to grow, and I HAVE to learn, and lead, and I feel like the best way to do that is to have responsibility put on me so I can learn to take that successfully. 

Work ethic.  I don't want to ever be known as lazy.  God's given me so many opportunities to succeed so that I can be the best I possibly can be in my future job, my future school, my future marriage (oops, I lied at the beginning.  Shout out to the wifey) and everything I do.  I don't want to ever take the easy way out of anything if it could possibly be detrimental to me.  So I'm working on that.

I'm really working on that.  Those are the big two that I'm majorly working hard on, because I want to be a man, and a good man.  I'm working on my work.  I'm learning how to put effort into things.  I don't close the door to my room anymore, because I want to work out my faith (Phillipians 2:12), and there is plenty of stuff that I could be doing behind closed doors that is not beneficial to me at all.  I have learned that things aren't going to change in my life until I actually change. 

It sounds super elementary, but so many people think that they'll change at some point, without doing anything about it.  We turn into lazy people who refuse to work because they want life to be easy and have all their troubles go away by wishful thinking.  We take grace for granted, and sometimes never get our act together, and spend our lives in the rut of wishful thinking.  The only way you can change, is if you change.  So change.  Put in work, so that you can become better.  Jesus came to save us from our sin, not to give us a free pass to do it. 

So that's what I've been thinking about.  We need to do work, son.

But grace still freaking rocks.