Men of God?

In my life I have been blessed to have great guys in my family. Guys who know how to lead, how to be loving, how to be true men. In our society today most young guys are looking for good role models, but they're looking in all the wrong places. We search our culture today in hopes of finding someone we can look up to in our lives, someone who has what we want. Most of the time we think we know what we want, things like money, power, and pleasure. These things are lies! They make us think that we are happy and  that everything is fine, but what we really are feeling is pain and sorrow. Bl. Pope John Paul the 2 said this, “It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is He who provoked you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in your heart your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle.
It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal.” Guys this is the truth, JP2 didn't lie to us! If you are thinking "WHY, why do I feel like nothing is working for me, nothing makes me happy, nothing makes me joyful" Then my brothers in Christ, maybe it's time you turned yourself  over to the great God who created you , let him be your role model, let him be your guide. To be a true MAN you must know the true MAN..... Jesus...... because how else can you come to be a man if you have never  seen a man who knows Jesus and works daily to show Him to you, or unless you know Jesus and desire to live like him and strive every day to live like Jesus. Maybe you are like me and have a great dad who does strive every day to live like Jesus. He teaches me and my brothers to do the same. Maybe your dad doesn't know Jesus and what I am talking about just doesn't make sense to you, but you are thinking, "that's it, that's what I need." Maybe you don't have a dad to look up to at all, for whatever reason. Let me tell you all something though, No matter who you are, or what your background is, Jesus doesn't care, He will take you from where you are and raise you up to new a new life in him, because our God is a merciful God, our God is an awesome God! There is a lack of understanding of what a true man is. A true man is a man who dies to himself to serve others every day!!!!! We need to learn as young men to serve others, to give up our wants, to serve our great and awesome God. This blog is here for all teens and young people who are searching for something great in life, searching for truth, searching for Christ, searching for happiness. Always remember JP2's words throughout your life "Jesus is what you seek"......find him and never give in to mediocrity. 






May God Bless you all. 
Brian