A Fight for Beauty
This post is mainly for men — real men. Men who what to fight for beauty. I am sure you all know of women who have been injured. Injured though abuse, bad marriages, disrespect and dishonor by other men or family members. Women who have been mishandled by their dad’s because they loved imperfectly. Female spirits that have been broken down. We all know these women.
You know the type: unable to receive love, injured, broken — and unwilling to open themselves up to the risk of fully vulnerable and intimate love from another man. I have spoken to more than a few women. “I won’t be getting into another relationship anytime soon.” It’s the refrain of our day. And they close themselves up to their own beauty, to true love from another, or to the love, care and partnership from another. And some have kids that need the love and model of a man that cares and is willing to sacrifice all for their well-being.
I for one am grieving. Grieving the loss of such a woman in my life. And I will fight for her soul and pray with messy fervency that she would be profoundly touched by the love of God. I want her to know, from God first, that she is pure and Her True Father wants to lavish His entire love on her. For then she can truly experience love from another on this earth. The quake in my heart is that she would know that she is accepted and that God’s extreme grace is yearning to flow into her hurting soul. You know such a woman.
I believe that there is a fight for the soul of the fairest of sexes in our world. Daily, I meet lovely souls that have shut themselves off from others for fear of being hurt again. They don’t want to risk, and yet, that is what I believe God is calling them toward. So I want men to join me in fervent prayer.
We must fight for beauty. We must honor and love those women that have been hurt. We may be married, or we may be single. It doesn’t matter. We must stand in the gap for injured feminine souls. We must stand with God between them and the forces of evil that seek to destroy them.
Please consider the hurt women in your life. Ask God to lay them upon your heart. And pray for them. Daily. With commitment. Ask for healing on their behalf. Ask for renewed life. If they have kids, pray for male role models that would fill the role of dad’s that have left. Ask for God to lavish His mighty and gentle love upon them. Ask for provision and protection. Intercede for them, that they would not seek a life of independence, but that they would seek a life of interdependence with a man that would love and honor them. Pray that they would not feebly navigate through life, trying to prove to themselves that they can make it on their own without the help of a man. Pray that the profound hurt in their souls would not cause closure to love that is good and pure and seeks only to honor them. I think you get what I mean.
This is our responsibility, guys, in this age of broken women. We may not be able to directly encourage them due to relational complexities, marriages that must be kept strong and other issues. But we can pray. We must pray.
So please consider the women in your life that need the prayer support of good men. I call you all to pray on their behalf. I cannot help but ask this of you, since it is the recent burden of my heart. And let me know what you think. Please share your hearts. The world is in dire need of a movement of prayerful men that care. Won’t you join me.
