Heroes

So I’m reading “Girls with Swords” by Lisa Bevere currently and it is incredibly amazing and life changing. It’s been a lot of talk about heroes and how they (we) can and should seize our moment. A lot of the heroes that we know in the Bible and throughout history had no idea that they were heroes until after the fact. Heroes are people of substance and live their lives by faith. Through faith there is SO much that we can accomplish. This is a short(not so short) list of some things that our biblical heroes were able to accomplish through faith:

Set the precedent for acceptable sacrifices

Skipped death

Pleased God

Built a massive ark in the middle of dry land

Drew the line between good and evil

Traveled to places unknown

Lived as strangers in the land

Kept their eyes on the eternal

Received what God did for them by faith

Became pregnant in old age and birthed a nation

In times of testing offered the promise back to God

Reached into the future and blessed their descendants

Prophesied destiny and the Exodus

Braved the king’s decree and hid their son

Refused a privileged royal life with the oppressors and chose hardship among God’s people, who were oppressed

Turned from the angry earthly king to obey the invisible eternal God

Celebrated the Passover

Crossed the Red Sea to dry land

Marched around Jericho seven times

Welcomed spies and escaped destruction

Toppled kingdoms

Made justice work

Took the promises for themselves

Were protected from lions, fires, and swords

Turned disadvantage into advantage

Won battles

Routed enemies

Received their loved ones back from the dead

Pretty incredible right?? Some of those seem kind of simple but then I look at others and I’m blown away by the amount of faith that it took that person to believe in that. I want a faith like my heroes, a faith that doesn’t compromise!