18/04/2021
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VICTORIOUS MEN'S TESTIMONIES [from their Male to Manhood].
#1: Personal Story of JODY BURKEEN
When I was married in 1990, my wife was far more mature than I had ever thought about being. (Some might say she still is.) But since I became a Christian in 2003, our roles have reversed.
During the first thirteen years of our marriage, my wife was raising me. She always had to mold me, scold me, and hold me just like a young child. And I came to the point where I actually liked it. The day before I got married, my mom made my bed. The day after I got married, my wife made it.
I had just gone from one mom to another. I was the biggest sissy around. My wife was my mom, not my soul mate. She spent many years training me to become a man. It didn’t work too well, because
that isn’t the biblical model, and I think over time she finally stopped trying and just let go.
In the early years of our marriage, when people asked us about having children, I would jokingly say, “She has to raise me first.”
I later realized that it wasn’t a joke! I was so far away from being a biblical
husband, like the one Paul talks to in Ephesians 5:
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the
washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any
other blemish, but holy and blameless.
In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies (vv. 25–28).
After I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior, I began to read what the Bible says about being a Christian husband. I found out that I wasn’t even close! And sadly, neither were most of the men I’d met
in church. But knowing I needed to change didn’t mean I knew what to do. I had thirteen years of bad habits to get rid of and a comfortable routine that would tempt me back way too often.
On top of that, I had a wife to convince that I had changed, and I had to close my ears to Satan telling me I couldn’t do it.
Becoming the husband God wants me to be has been the biggest challenge in my Christian walk thus far.
I had made a lot of mistakes and had let my wife down more than once. So for me to start practicing spiritual leadership in the home well, it was going to take time, a lot of prayer, and actions that were much different than I had shown in the past. As she has always said, “Actions speak louder than words.”
Jody Burkeen is the founder and president of MAN UP! This ministry
was birthed out of a desire to change the way Christian men “do” Christianity.
Blessings
From Pappa George Kasirye
