Lusty Stallions

Until yesterday I didn't know the phrase "lusty stallions" was in the Bible.

They were well-fed, lusty stallions,each neighing for his neighbor's wife. -Jeremiah 5:8

Here God is describing the men of Judah, men who have no more control than lusty stallions. Having abandoned God, these men abandoned faithfulness to their wives and each went "neighing for his neighbor's wife."Men, don't be lusty stallions.But, be a stallion.The alternative to being a lusty stallion isn't to be a gelding, a castrated man drained of passion, testosterone, and drive.Be a stallion. Be a passionate, strong, happy, faithfully monogamous stallion who goes the way of Proverbs 5:18-20, not Jeremiah 5:8.

Let your fountain be blessed,and rejoice in the wife of your youth,a lovely deer, a graceful doeLet her breasts fill you at all times with delight;be intoxicated always in her loveWhy should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman...?

Our culture presents men with two paths: be a bravado-soaked lusty stallion or be a testosterone-drained gelding. The Bible offers men a third way, the path of true manhood: be a stallion. Be a stallion trained and disciplined by the gospel, a stallion set free to run wild according to God's gracious design.