1 Timothy 6:10 -12

10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
11 But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness. 12 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
 
1 Timothy 6:10-12
 
We men are in eternal struggle in our lives, we are pulled between thye world and our faith.  The world have us be weathy, nice cars, prestigous jobs, kids in the best colleges, lacking nothing immediately.  We are told by the fools of this world and the weak in faith that we must labor in the world to be of worth, that we must join even be it partially the reasonings of those that walk in death.  We stand, even casually with one foot in the world and one in our faith.  We have come to rely, in some way on the things of the world to provide rather then the Lord.
 
Our pursuits, while we work in the world, are not purely for the Lord.  Somewhere as you dig down, man fears not having enough, being in adequate as a father as a man.  We compare to others what they may have and have wants beyond our means.  We look at some and say "poor" and others and say "rich" but we use the standard of this world.  Who is truly "poor" and who "rich"?  This is our sin nature, the worldly eyes that we never seem to completely discard.
 
Man of God!  What would be a true man of God?  Who has achieved this in the world?  We hold this standard out to the Acclaimed Saints and never think that we are all Saints to the Lord.  We hope that we men can be men of God but we only half heartedly pursue this in our lives.  We give only what is easy, what will not cost us.  We fail to truly trust the one who we claim as Lord, we we say we follow.
 
Men, we are the Spirtual Leaders of our households.  As the head goes so goes the body.  My family will only be as good as I am and in that I am bothered.  We must stand for something, we must committ to what we believe.  If we only say and not do our hypocracy shows, and becomes a cancer.  We can not pick and chose the places of our faith, they must be always. 
 
If we labor, then we must labor for the Lord.  Our hearts not set on monetary gain or even accolades but on producing for Him who has given us much.  We must see the fruits of our labor as His and then with that fruit seek the treasures that He shall provide, righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness.  These are the measuress of the Saints, of the Men of God.
 
Imagine if each man of the Church stood for these values in all things.  If we pushed each other into service as Men of God to produce these fruits.  If we displayed these in our homes and instilled these values to our children and wives.  If our worldly work was marked by them and seen as different.  What if we were not ashamed or fearful to say that we were Men of God in all circumstances, all circumstances. 
 
We are expected to be the leaders, and bring these things forth in all things and all measure.  Our church should be marked by its Men and Christ working through them.  Our service is to the Lord and the works are the fruit that should be apperent to the community.  We should be different to those that look only for the worldly man.  If you are a beilever of the Lord Jesus Christ.  If you have publicly called His name as Lord and Saviour then you are without exccuse as to your duty and to the position that God expects from you.
 
Men of God, be the Men that God wants you to be.  If not alone then be the help of your Brother but we must move to this in our lives.  No excuse.  Make secondary the issues and gain of the world and pursue first the righteousness of God.  Make you home and family your cause and your work His.  Trust in Hiom and He will see you through.
 
Lord, let all men who call you Lord stand and become the Leadersof their households, the leaders of the Church, the examples of Jesus Christ that they should be, that you made them when you called them.  Amen.