Being "THAT Guy"

BEING "THAT GUY".

"That guy"

Negative definition:- any person who does something considered inappropriate; "the kind of guy that does that."

Positive definition:- A person (or type of person) who does something noticeable but is not otherwise identifiable or well known. (Eg. "That guy" who plays the innkeeper in the first "Lord of The Rings" . Or, "He got the part of "that guy" who always gets killed in the first scene.").

I want to be "that guy". I want to be that guy who praises, honours, defends and lifts up his wife when those around him are joking about and putting down theirs. I want to be that guy who lays aside his own life whenever, and as long as, necessary, for the sake of his wife and children. I want to be that guy who lifts up and honours the name of God when others treat it with contempt and disrespect.

I want to be "that guy" who loves the unlovable, tolerates the intolerable, endures the unendurable, lifts up the downtrodden, gives hope to the hopeless, gives consideration to those who are not considered, gives respect to those who receive none. Who cares about those who others consider not worthy of it, who does not neglect the neglected.

I want to be that guy who contends for the unity of "the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints" (Jude 1:3). Who is prepared to boldly stand unintimidated before leaders and kings, false teachers and false prophets and those who call themselves brothers but who are not, and declare "it is written ... and the scriptures cannot be bent, broken or set aside". Who is prepared to use the two edged sword of the word of God, as written, to cut through every deception, illusion and dark thing of this world and lay all things open to the light that comes from God.

I want to be that guy who, in a world of people driven by all sorts of things, chooses to be and desires to be, Christ Driven in all things. I want to be that guy who chooses to join the unpopular few on the narrow, single-laned stairway to Heaven and not the popular many on the broad multi-laned highway to Hell.

Daily I want to take up my cross and pointing firmly toward my Saviour, Lord and King, Christ Jesus, pray to my Father in Heaven, "Father recreate in me ..... THAT guy".

D.J. Ludlow

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