Friday 30 August 2013

You could be a hero

We often think of hero's as people who accomplish great things and our definition of great things could include something like saving a life.

We can all be a hero, a hero to our spouse, children, family, coworkers, friends, a widow we know, and the list could go on and on. We don't need to be a hero by the worlds standards and do something huge that makes the papers, but we can still be a hero and have a long lasting impact on others lives by doing the little things, by being a blessing to someone.

Perhaps being a blessing could be as simple as doing something kind, providing a meal to someone in need, saying something kind to a hurting soul, etc.

I wonder, how have I been a hero, how have I impacted someones life in a positive way for God's honour and glory?

How are you doing with this?

The following passage asks us to be imitators of Christ, perhaps that would be a good place to start.

Philippians 2 (http://www.biblegateway.com)
New International Version (NIV)
Imitating Christ’s Humility
2 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in very nature[a] God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature[b] of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death
even death on a cross!
9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.

Kutless - Hero

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