Living in a culture that emasculates men, vilifies men and dishonors men, but then asks the question why do we have an identity crisis on our hands, is ironic at best. It may behoove us to recognize it is because identity comes from the father. When we support men being women, homosexuality as a viable lifestyle, pornography and adultery as okay and then wonder why we have so many eligible single women, so many fatherless children, so many narcissistic people, and so much trauma drama. We think all of this is new to our culture, our generation, but it is not. 

The apostle Paul addressed all of these issues in his letters to the Corinthians and if we understood what was really happening in the Corinthian culture, we would not call America Babylon, but that’s for another blog. Paul addresses the sexual immorality issue head on, and the apostle John speaks to the identity issue coming from the father. Friends, we need healthy men, we need men who know who they are. We need fathers who know who they are in Christ, so whole families can come into the kingdom. 

It all starts with identity and if you did not have a healthy father, your identity is probably fractured and yet someone has to stop the trauma train and seek the Lord, so the glory train of knowing who you are in Christ can run for generations to come. You can’t change what you were given but you can change what you pass on. 

John 8 speaks of a conversation between Jesus and the Pharisees and Jesus says, “For I absolutely know who I am, where I’ve come from, and where I’m going. But you Pharisees have no idea about what I’m saying.” They didn’t know who Jesus was, because they didn’t know who His father was. Jews trace identity back to the father. So Jesus says, “What I say about who I am is true, for I am not alone in my testimony—my Father is the other witness, and we testify together of the truth.”

In Israel men were called son of ______ (their father’s name), no wonder Jesus called Himself the son of God, for God is His father. Friends, we need fathers, for they release to us our identity. Men we need you to be honorable, humble, pursuers of God and His truth, valiant warriors and defenders of truth on earth as it is in heaven. When fathers stand up, identity in the children will be restored. We need men to be fathers for fathers instill identity and identity removes insecurity.