Felt any tugs lately?

One of the key elements in our quest to be better men, husbands, and fathers is our ability to, in essence, become change agents.  We utilize one of the greatest gifts from God to every man to do that.  That gift is choice.  The choices we willingly and knowingly make will bring either positive change, or change which isn't so good.  It's really pretty simple isn't it?  The choices we make pretty much drive the changes we make in ourselves.

Have you ever thought "I really don't like....

• how I react when confronted"
• how I continually come back to this bad habit"
• how I routinely think of folks in certain socio-economic-cultural classes"
• how easily I yield to my "secret" temptation(s)"
• how I feel about myself"
• how I doubt God's love for me sometimes"
• and more?

Chances are, if you are thinking these things, it is your heart which is really yearning for positive change.  And if that is true, then you are halfway on your way to making the choices to bring about that change within you.  It is the Holy Spirit working in your heart telling you to "go ahead".  All you have to do is listen to that leading, and then make the necessary choices.

Once you have made the choice(s) for positive change, all that is left is to make the decision to follow through, and you are on the way.  Sometimes those changes will not come overnight.  They may be painfully slow.  There may be times when you doubt your ability to stick with it.  There could well be times when you "fall off the tracks".  One thing is absolutely certain throughout the whole process:

When it's from the heart, it's from God-through the Holy Spirit.  You felt something and it was His nudging.  And when He's nudged you it for a noble purpose and He absolutely will give you the strength and determination to see it through. 

When we feel those tugs on our hearts, those ones that will lead us to change, allow us to become better men, husbands, and fathers, the battle within us is halfway over because we have taken the most important first step....we have felt the need to change something(s) about us, and in doing so have identified some shortcomings we don't like about ourselves.  This is the beauty of knowing, and being ok with, the fact that we all have brokenness within. 

Have you felt any tugs lately?