We don’t know their names and we may never experience what they did. But we can have the same faith.
“I do not have time to tell about those …. who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions,quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies. Women received back their dead, raised to life again. There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection.”(Hebrews 11 v 32-35)
Who were these heroes who stepped forward to overcome against all the odds?
Who were these heroes who would not accept their fate?
Who were these heroes who saw the power of God move through their lives?
“Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were put to death by stoning;they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated— the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground.” (Hebrews 11 v 36-38)
Who were these heroes who stayed when they could have gone even though staying was more painful?
Who were these heroes who felt that they never belonged?
Who were these heroes who spent most of their lives hiding from enemies and dangers?
They could have been you.
These things still happen across the world.
These things still impact all of us even if it is in a safer way.
What is needed is what these heroes had: Faith.
- Faith is given for moments of crisis.
- Faith enables you to live in the worst of seasons.
- Faith causes you to cope.
- Faith does not ignore the present but is also not blind to what is in the future.
- Faith triumphs in death.
You may not feel you are a hero but today you can ask God for faith for your day.
Missions Paul 