Feel Like a Man

Series: The Making of a Man 6/16/13 God created men and women in His image, and God feels. The Bible tells that God experiences a full range of emotional experience, including grief, joy, compassion and anger (Gen. 6:6, 19:6, Isa 62:5). Emotions are God’s gift to us to help us experience life more meaningfully. The problem is that most men live their lives suppressing their emotions, and the root cause can be traced all they way back to Eden. God originally created men and women to be naked and unashamed (Gen 2:25), which speaks of more than just being physically unclothed. When you’re naked you’re open for discovery and everything about you is exposed.  It speaks of openness, honesty, and vulnerability. But after Adam and Eve sinned, Gen. 3:7 says, “Right away they saw what they had done, and they realized they were naked. Then they sewed fig leaves together to make something to cover themselves.” They became closed, covered, protective because they were ashamed. The emotion of shamed is negative, destructive and unhealthy for men and for women...so ladies don’t tune out, this message applies to you to.