The last four days we’ve talked about Heroes. Their attitudes, their tenacity, their actions and their beliefs, and today our last in the series integrity. By definition integrity means the quality of being honest and fair and the state of being complete or whole. Now that’s a hero, someone who doesn’t need anyone of anything to be whole and complete. Someone who can be honest and fair is someone we can follow and emulate. You want a hero? Jesus is the someone we can emulate. Jesus even said those very words, “…come follow me and I will make you…”Matthew 4:19
Jesus wants us to receive Him as our Savior. To do just that we must repent and then get to know Him. When you desire to get to know someone you hang out with them. Spend time with them. Talk to them. Follow them around. In that process you find out a lot about them. In this case you find out that you can trust them to the uttermost.
Trust in the Lord requires faith. It is that thing that we do even though we cannot see God. In order to trust the Lord we must first believe that He is. In order to please God we must first believe that He is; we must believe that He is the rewarder of those that diligently seek Him. This is what the writer of Hebrews was talking about when he wrote Hebrews 11:6. He referred back to those heroes of the faith in times past that were rewarded because they believed [trusted] God would do what He said He would do. Today we have the great pleasure of the history that has been recorded in the Bible and we can see that those who trusted the Lord were rewarded.
So at the end of this series we need to ask ourselves are we being changed into the image of the one we are hanging out with? Is our life the kind of life that can be rewarded? The answer to this will answer the question, “Who is your hero?”
Jesus wants us to receive Him as our Savior. To do just that we must repent and then get to know Him. When you desire to get to know someone you hang out with them. Spend time with them. Talk to them. Follow them around. In that process you find out a lot about them. In this case you find out that you can trust them to the uttermost.
Trust in the Lord requires faith. It is that thing that we do even though we cannot see God. In order to trust the Lord we must first believe that He is. In order to please God we must first believe that He is; we must believe that He is the rewarder of those that diligently seek Him. This is what the writer of Hebrews was talking about when he wrote Hebrews 11:6. He referred back to those heroes of the faith in times past that were rewarded because they believed [trusted] God would do what He said He would do. Today we have the great pleasure of the history that has been recorded in the Bible and we can see that those who trusted the Lord were rewarded.
So at the end of this series we need to ask ourselves are we being changed into the image of the one we are hanging out with? Is our life the kind of life that can be rewarded? The answer to this will answer the question, “Who is your hero?”
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