“I look around and see my wonderful life
Almost perfect from the outside
In picture frames, I see my beautiful wife
Always smiling, but on the inside

Oh, I can hear her saying

Lead me with strong hands
Stand up when I can’t
Don’t leave me hungry for love
Chasing dreams, but what about us?

Show me you’re willing to fight
That I’m still the love of your life
I know we call this our home
But I still feel alone

I see their faces, look in their innocent eyes
They’re just children from the outside
I’m working hard, I tell myself they’ll be fine
They’re independent, but on the inside

Oh, I can hear them saying

Lead me with strong hands
Stand up when I can’t
Don’t leave me hungry for love
Chasing dreams, what about us?

Show me you’re willing to fight
That I’m still the love of your life
I know we call this our home
But I still feel alone

So Father, give me the strength
To be everything I’m called to be
Oh Father, show me the way
To lead them

Won’t You lead me?

To lead them with strong hands
To stand up when they can’t
Don’t want to leave them hungry for love
Chasing things that I could give up

I’ll show them I’m willing to fight
And give them the best of my life
So we can call this our home
Lead me ’cause I can’t do this alone

Father, lead me ’cause I can’t do this alone”
by Sanctus Real

This song is amazing… It moves me… because from a Mother’s perspective… I can not do it all myself… from a wife’s perspective… yes of course there have been times when I’ve felt this way… yes even being married to my visionary husband who is so focused on productivity.
The point is, none of us are perfect. None of us can have that void in our souls filled by any other human or by any earthly thing or experience. Only Jesus Christ can fill us up and give us the supernatural strength to do “all we are called to do.”

In Marriage, Women are crying out for men to stand up and lead. Even the most feminist women desire to be cherished, loved, respected, to have their man sacrifice and fight for them, to show them they are still the love of their life. As women we have so many expectations on our men, being raised in the generation I have been raised, we have been raised in, their is a continuous battle to be independent and tough and do it all on our own and to desire our man to really cherish us and protect & provide for us. I’m going out on a limb here to say this to some of you, but my personal belief is that our identity needs to be found in Christ alone. But in regards to our husbands, we need to let them do what they were created to do, which is protect & provide, to be willing to die for their bride. That means we need to battle this independent spirit within us and work to be a TEAM, not adversaries that compete. If our energies were spent focused on complimenting one another and helping one another, submitting to one another, giving vs. always taking, if we focused on our team oneness and sought out to build one another up… imagine the strength.
Men, stand up and be strong…
the traditional pattern in life has been, when men don’t stand up, women do and then the men don’t fulfill their God-given roll… what do you think happens to a man who has his power taken away? What happens to a man who has no purpose? What happens to a family when these things happen to the man? When happens to the church when it is full of men who have experienced this in their lives? What happens to our government when it is comprised of men who were raised in homes with father’s who were discouraged out of standing up? What happens to our nation, our world?
What happens? Answer is 75% divorce rate, children raised in single parent homes or split between parents, stress, depression, disease, addiction, I could go on and on…
So Men Rise up, young men, you are in boot camp, get ready, practice leading, be on purpose.
Women, let your men lead. Women, we have enough responsibility with our homes, our children, other younger women…. that should be MORE than enough to keep us busy… let men lead men so they don’t have lower self esteem…
Husbands, Love your wives and children… truly… I am so blessed with my husband bc he really tries proactively to lead in our home and marriage. But just as in this song… from the outside certain lives can look perfect… don’t be fooled… our life isn’t perfect. I strong marriage takes fighting for…we are all human…are equally struggling with sin in life, but when you are honest with struggles you can proactively fight against them.

May God Give Your Strength for the good fight!

Check out this song….
Sanctus Real