Thank you for listening to this message from Damon Thompson Ministries.

The core issue for men in our day is not the strength of our external desires, it's rather the weakness of our interior ones.

Focusing on diminishing our inferior appetites will never birth the hoped for result. We must live to stoke the fires

of a superior flame of all satisfying desire. It's a short one, so let me read it again. The core

issue for men in our day is not the strength of our external desires. It's rather the weakness

of our interior ones. Focusing on diminishing our inferior

appetites will never birth the hoped for result, we must live to stoke the fires of a superior

flame of all satisfying desire. In a world filled with a thousand illegitimate measures,

standards, and benchmarks,

we need a divine interpretation of God's intended measuring rod for success.

We need heaven's idea of how a man is measured so we can be released from the pressure

the flawed system, the flawed standard inevitably produces in the heart of the man

endeavoring to capture the seemingly ever elusive breath of purpose.

What then is the true measure of a man?

Surely the revelation must reach far beyond a career, a hobby, a fanaticism concerning fading dust-gathering notions.

Could we dare to hear that God is compelling us

into the crucible of genuine manhood,

the divine sweet spot for God's supreme masterpiece,

mankind, Eureka, we are finding it.

It is far more difficult to locate

because it cannot be accomplished only inherited.

It's simply the hardest thing we will ever do in life.

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