Glorious Patriarchy

02/10/2020

Many are quick to defame this mantle

The issues within and without, the sexes battle

For the havoc, its wreaked in society

As noted by the receipts we call history

War, bloodshed, manipulation, greed, and gore

Abuse and policing femininity is what it’s known for

This is not the pattern God-ordained

Rather, service to all is leadership and status gained

Like Christ gave himself up for the church

Not ordering about as in “step and fetch”

But sacrificially laying down his life for what was once dead

Like Christ truly stands up as the head--

A reflection for what the glorious patriarchy was intended

Where are the godly men? The righteous men?

The bold and loving fathers?

The courageous brothers and husbands to wives?

The pure and uncompromising young men?

The men with backbone unafraid to weep for the dying world

The men of valor quick to intervene

The men unafraid to correct and rebuke foolishness

The men unafraid to say what the world needs to hear

I’m tired of the buffoon caricature of men

The laughing stock, useless, irresponsible and dead-beat

I’m sickened by the sexual perversion

The gaze that quickly degrades women into objects

The lying hissing tongue laced with sweetened poison

But equally worse is the man given to misandry

Downgrading his role and worth to appease anarchists

We need men who are good and wise in judgment

Godly men whose loyalty is to Jesus

Not political parties, sports teams, and meaningless pleasures

Christlike leaders--loving and firm, anchored in the truth of God’s word

Not mincing their words, not deceitful in actions

Authoritative but not abusers, wise men

Modeled not after fleshly motives but by the way God intended it to be

Society is in need of the glorious patriarchy!