Manning Up.

"The honor of a gentleman demands the inviolability of his word and the incorruptibility of his principles."

A Great post on his facebook page yesterday from Author Frank Peretti. (That guy who wrote a lot of great books and two others that were also rather good but weirded out a lot of Christendom.)

 It is good advice for any man (or woman) who wished to be a keeper of his word in marriage or anywhere else in life.  It is also relevant to politics and social issues and just about every other area where we face the challenge to do difficult things when an easy wrong is just as available as a hard right.  Read the whole article Here.  But this was the highlight for me.:

"It’s all about growing up.

First Corinthians 13:11: When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

So how does a child think?

The tooth ferry [sic], Santa, and the Easter Bunny will bring me stuff and I don’t have to work for it.
Bribery or tantrums will get me what I want.
I shouldn’t have to wait to get what I want.
I shouldn’t have to suffer pain or sorrow, which includes eating food I don’t like and doing my chores.
I should have as little responsibility as possible.
I don’t have to cut my own French toast, mom will do it
I don’t have to pick up my toys, mom will do it
I don’t have to clean my room, mom will do it.

And there are older, grown up kids who still think the same way.

First Corinthians 14:20: Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regards to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults."

Be whatever you resolve to be.
Mark