Manhood

     A man of God, powerful in Spirit and follower of God's will, spoke to me and many other graduated students this past week. He gave us much advice about different situations in life, how certain things work, and taught us about the process of lasting through the Mosaic Period in our lives. He also taught the men what it means to be a man and how you can know if you are a man. He gave us his opinion, and this was it:

"You become a spiritual man when another person's spiritual life is dependent on you."

     What does that mean to us? How do you know if someone's spiritual life is dependent on me? As he said this, I didn't really know what to think, those two question came up in my head and I didn't know whether or not I was able to be classified as a spiritual man. Until this morning.

     My younger brother walked into my room. I knew he had just been reading his bible for an hour or so now, so I figured he was taking a break. Instead he proceeded to ask me a question about a section of Genesis he was reading. He sat down next to me on my bed and wanted to know what I knew about his question. He seemed my opinion and the little knowledge that I had. 

     As I finished explaining to him, I knew that it was at that moment that I knew what it meant to have someone's spiritual life be dependent on not only me, but on my own spiritual life.