Heroes are born each day. One person leaves this planet and another is born with the potential to be a hero someone who dares to make a difference no matter what the cost. A hero is a person with distinguish courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities(Dictionary.com). Now, heroes do not see themselves as such they just do what they do because they do. Each and everyone of us are borne with a desire to do something great and when we come across that opportunity the hero within refuses to take the credit.  Sometimes fear plays a major part in blocking the hero within.  A young person drowning with many spectacles and only one person jumps in the water to save him. Although, in a few cases we find one person in danger and several people jump in to save him, like a in time when a hot air balloon that could not land and entire block community came and save them., or when a teen falls into some raging waters and is saved by a bystander; A hero is always needed. 

1 Chronicles 11:12-14

12 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties. 13 He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a parcel of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.14 And they set themselves in the midst of that parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the Lord saved them by a great deliverance.

David and his people found themselves in a land rich with barley, but with a powerful enemy threatening to slaughter them if they did not leave this blessing. All the people that were with David left the land for fear, leaving David and Eleazar alone against the enemy. These two men stood and fought against this army and won. This hero phenomenon woke up in David and Eleazar to protect and defend this land. Eleazar did not think to himself “hey I’m going to save the day today”, he just did what needed to be done. A little later in this passage we find David thirsty and three of his mighty men breaking through the fort of the Philistines and get the water for David (1Chro. 11:17-18). It is that hero in us that wakes spontaneously when the need is urgent to save the day. Paul spoke to the church regarding where this hero phenomenon comes from in the letter the church of the Philippians (2:13), where he tells them that it is from God the ability to do of God’s will.  God is in the business of saving people with people (Ps.34:6). When you cry unto the Lord that hero phenomenon awakes in us and he saves (Ps.106:10). It is the Lord’s will that man does not suffer, he did not make us to be objects of pain or suffering, but of models of God’s saving grace (Ps.34:18).

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