Your Primal Roots

Did you ever stop to think and wonder why we, as men like competition and action so much? Why men dare and push each other to do stupid things? Why do we test ourselves against each other to see who can run faster or longer, or who can throw a ball or rock the farthest? Sometimes we’ll see who’s the better wrestler? Or who dares to do something dangerous or embarrassing? My crew has been known to take turns throwing an 85 lb. log, judging success on distance, rotation and groin pulls. One cold camping season in February, one of our men thought it would be fun to start a polar bear club. So he stripped down to his BVD’s (stands for; Butt Very Dangerous) and jumped into the lake at our camp. I don’t know the exact temperature of the water but there was ice on my truck that day, so swimming wasn’t the first thing on a list of “things you’d like to do today”. Well if you knew my crew, you wouldn’t be surprised to see that one by one they’d strip down and jump in, not wanting to be left out or counted as a weenie. (That’s my boys!) Even the young kids (10 year olds) got in and risked hypothermia. So why are we like this?...... It’s just how we’re programed. Gods’ Word says; Proverbs 27:17 N IV. As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. In other words, that’s how we are supposed to be. It’s good and healthy to challenge your friends to honorable competition once in a while. We’re meant to push each other to greater heights of physical and mental capabilities. I believe that the most civilized man you can imagine, is only one catastrophic event away from becoming the warrior/protector/hunter he is predisposed and able to be. That’s why I sometime rant about the modern day image of a man and the effect it has on our society…The liberal emasculation of our kind has caused leaderless families, socially inept youth, women who don’t know how to choose a good man and moral decay throughout our population. Godly men are the cure for this onslaught of cultural decay. And healthy men push each other to betterment. It’s Gods’ way. So when the moment’s right, feel free to dare your bud to a bug eating contest or hurt yourself while speed climbing a tree. Or maybe pull a groin trying to out throw your friend in a log throwing contest. It will make you a better man physically and mentally.