Christian Masculinity vs. Secular Masculinity

[GraceDK]

The Lord is not seaching for knights.
He is searching for Children.
Yet if you want to be knightly in the sense that Jesus is… know that purity comes from the inside. The one who lusts after a woman has not been transformed from the inside… a pervert might as well lust after a stone in the shape of a hip…
the Bible does not justify immodest dress, but Jesus is silent about it: He rather speaks about the eye that sees. It is written:
The clean eye sees clean.
Follow Jesus: learn how to see your fellow men and women … then you will speak … and speak only to bless …you will see your own poverty… the one who is last in the eyes of the world might be the first in the eyes of the Lord God. Things are not always as they seem…

A man once addressed one of the desert fathers, Abba Agathon. He sighed and asked the abba…: “are you not bothered by all that noise from the children in this neighborhood all day long”… The abba looked at him and said: “Are you talking about the angels?”

 

[MH84]

I think that here we are confusing masculinity with testosterone. I am amazed to read that the first description of a true man is of a sword wielding knight, instead of a working man, married and faithful to his wife and children. A man that is willing to take a second job and give up hours of sleep to be able to pay for catholic school. A man that is supporting his children by being a catechism teacher instead of playing golf or football with his buddies. Sometime it is much easier to say I am ready to die or to kill instead of saying I am ready to spend the next 70 years to serve my Lord and my neighbor while my efforts are acknowledged by no one but the Lord alone.

Dr. Phil has a saying, something like: people say they are willing to die for their kids, so why don’t they live for them.