A heroic deed is, in my opinion, an act that positively impacts the life of another. Although one deed may be seemingly smaller than another (for example giving up your window seat on an airplane so that a newlywed couple can sit next to each other, versus donating an organ to a dieing man), to the person who benefits from it, they can both be considered heroic deeds in their own rite. However, the joy of sitting next to your new spouse will not last forever, and, eventually, you must disembark; your new lung which allows you to take in life giving oxygen will age with you and will one day breathe its last. Things, feelings, beliefs, hopes, dreams, fears, places, bodies are temporal. Therefore, deeds which are positively impactful are also temporarily impactful. Can something that is only temporarily impactful be considered truly heroic? I submit that it cannot. Ergo, for a deed to be truly heroic it must be eternally impactful.
In the New Testament book of Revelations, chapter 1, verse 8, God says that “’I am the Alpha and the Omega…who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.’” God is eternal. At the end of chapter 25 of the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus talks about the difference between an evil man and a righteous man, concluding that “’[the evil man] will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.’” The human soul is eternal. Out of His unconditional love, Jesus, the eternal God, died on the cross and rose from the grave to bring eternal life to the eternal soul. This is a truly heroic deed, which truly makes Jesus a hero. In and of ourselves we do not have the ability to positively impact eternity because we are part of the problem, a virus, if you will. A virus cannot cure itself, it needs external intervention to destroy it. In the same way, we cannot cure ourselves/forgive our own sins; we must allow the holy, pure, righteous, uninfected God, to heal us. Then we will be able to be used by God to bring healing to others. This healing process, this forgiveness of sins, this salvation, this freedom is truly a heroic deed. Therefore the hero is not you and me, it is only He, and He working in and through us. That is what heroism is all about. For a deed to be truly heroic it must eternally impact the eternal God and the eternal soul.
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So free will inately makes us, who have made the decision to follow Jesus, heros.
If we truly follow Jesus, yes.
I want to be “A champion to widows and a father to the fatherless,” that is the kind of hero I want to be.
You are a beautiful young lady who is trying to be godly and it is beautiful.