Despite the fact that God created a man and endowed leadership in him and moreover the first child to be born on earth was a boy, masculinity has tremendously continued to be emasculated through time. Biblical compendiums confirm that crisis of masculinity aren't an incipient tragedy. The life of a boy-child has been in the list of the endangered spies since the ancient days of the Old Testament when Pharaoh ordered the Egyptian midwives to kill every boy-child during birth. The same order was given by Herod in the New testament when he ordered the killing of all newborn male children in a dire need to fulfill his atrocious plan to infanticide Jesus. Despite the fact that both Moses and Jesus escaped the massacre and went ahead to lead the children of God from captivity, male offspring has remained in the hit list of hell to this day. With that in mind, it's our responsibility to change this centuries old narrative through intensive and relentless efforts and witness a future generation of liberated and empowered boy-child.
Noting that a man is the foundation of a family, when families are combined, they make a community, when communities are amalgamated, they become a nation and when nations are integrated, they form the world. Psalms 9:11 'If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?'
For a very long time, we have spent restless days and sleepless night empowering a girl-child on a very weak foundation namely; the boy-child forgetting that the entire structure is a time bomb awaiting to explode because the foundation can no longer bear the enormous structural weight.
If we are serious about a steady and intact structure, it's a high time to gentrify the foundation. (boy-child) Otherwise, our negligence in matters boy-child empowerment will surely not stand the test of time.
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