Fireproof - Two thumbs way up!!

Last night me, my wife and some friends of ours went to see the new movie Fireproof. All of us were really looking forward to it with all the promotions that we have seen about it. Kirk Cameron did a great job in this film. Every single time I have seen him on TV and from what people have told me that have met him in person he seems like the nicest guy in the world so it was a change to see him play a character who wasn’t all puppy dogs and ice cream. This movie has some real life situations that most all of us have felt at one time or another. Whether it is anger, sadness, tears, or temptation. Haven’t we all felt those things?

Being an “evangelist” I strive to be great at what I do. I want to study all the apologetics that I can find. I want to know how to answer everyone that I meet who has questions about Christianity. I spend hours and hours on the streets talking to people. I spend time at home on the computer researching web design or reading the next great book on evangelism. My point is that I practice what I do so I can be good at it. If you are good at something the odds are that you have poured countless hours into perfecting what you do. If we, as men are to be good husbands then we must practice.

Recently Kick Cameron was on Dr. Phil promoting the new movie. One of the guests was a fireman chaplain who was speaking about the similarities of training men to be firefighters and training men to be husbands. Here is what he said.

“We take our new men, and we put them through 13 weeks of intensive training, and then we put them in the station, and for a year we train them more, and then they’re just starting to get to become a firefighter,” John says. “I went to a conference where they had leaders in ministries and so forth, 1,500 men, and the man asked, ‘How many of you have had an example of how to be a husband, how to be a father, and probably, out of 1,500 men who were in leadership, there were maybe 15 to 20 hands that went up. None of them had any training on how to honor their wife or treat them with respect.”

If I spend time doing anything I should spend that much more time studying my wife, learning about her and from her, and making sure that she knows that I love her. I cannot casually sit around thinking that I do enough and that I love her enough. “She already knows I love her”, some of us might say. To that I ask, “Does she?” I want to make sure that for every second I spend practicing sharing my faith so I can present that love toward others that I use all my time, energy, and efforts into practicing to be the husband that the Lord Jesus Christ wants me to be. If our ministry at home is a wreck then our ministry to the world means nothing. Please Lord, help us love our wives the way that you love the church. (Ephesians 5:25)

On a side note about the movie. You might want to bring a whole case of tissue. I think we all cried all the way through the movie. What a great movie! It truly makes me appreciate everyone in my life right now and how my mother has looked out after and cared for me for so long. I also think about the prayers of my wife’s family for her life and how it has also blessed me knowing that God wanted to give her a husband who loved Him. I truely will give my all to lead her and love her all the days of my life.