Do I have what it takes?

Am I powerful enough to handle this?

Am I real man?

These are the questions that men wrestle with along their journey of life.  And, as John Eldredge says in his book, Wild at Heart, "Men are haunted by the question(s) or crippled by the answer."

Haunted By The Question

I remember my own story (one of many stories!) of wrestling with these questions.  I was probably in 4th or 5th grade and there was a kid at school who kept teasing me and making me scared.  That probably wasn't hard because I was afraid of everything!  But, it was really bothering me and somehow it got mentioned when I was home one day.  

I remember talking to my dad about this and, with my dad being a godly man and a soft-hearted guy, I really thought I knew what he would say.

"Son, you just gotta walk away.  Boys can be mean but Christians walk away and be 'the bigger man'".  

But that's not what he said.  Instead, it was more like this:

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