We all know that glasses are used to give us clarity of vision so we can see better. For the next few moments the desire is to give you a better vision of Bible heros.
There have been Bible type books produced mostly for children in which, as the title suggests, there are story after story of people who did great things. People like David, a young boy who defeated a battle tested giant named Golliath.
There are several stories of people like Esther, Samson, Moses and more of whom we learn in Scripture. They did great and powerful things and are given the title hero.
I absolutely agree in the things that these people accomplished are amazing feates. Feates that are hero status. But then I read in James of Elijah:
Who, “was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain and for three ears and six months it did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed again and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.” James 5:17-18
Did you catch that? Elijah was a man, with a nature like ours. He was a person like you and me but God worked through him.
Seeing this was a clarifying moment. It really helped to gain a good vision of Bible heros. There are not multiple heros in Scripture. There is really only one hero: Jesus.
Next time, this thought will be developed a bit further and linked to the passage of Jesus serving by washing feet.
Until then S.D.G.