Male Enhancement

Product promotion for goods or services to enhance the physical cross our paths almost hourly. The emotional or psychological less often. The spiritual almost never. It is easy to understand why the world around us works in this order. Image is everything. For the Christian this should be reversed. Men, you need the enhancement guaranteed to work.

Peter gives some groundwork for the Christian life:

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Peter 1:5-8)

Notice how we are to be adding one thing onto another without slacking on the predecessor. Applied specifically to males, it looks something like this. First to younger men

Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled. (Titus 2:6)

Notice the expectations are few (really one) but focused. This is a major obstacle in the young man's life as he can easily be obsessed with the daily affairs of jobs and relationships. Passions run strong and can overflow.

Then older men are to be:

sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. (Titus 2:2)

See that self-control remains and has enhancements. This can only be brought about by the diligent work of being in the Scriptures, knowing what our Lord desires, and applying it. What does that look like?

Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us. (Titus 2:7-8)

The normal Christian life takes effort. I pray men are up to the task.