Love Your Neighbor Challenge — Day 26

Love Believes: Part 3

We tell ourselves stories about people and though this can make it seem dramatic, it can be detrimental to cast people into victim, villain, and hero roles.

When we characterize someone as a hero, we can fall into an error of hero worship and expect that it will be a person who might save us from a bad situation.

We really need God. God will sometimes deliver us from a situation–and use a real person to do it. But we can’t always be in a hurry to get out of difficult situations. Those difficulties are what God uses to build character and a greater Christ-likeness in us.

Our true hero is God. If we look to any other person, we will be disappointed. See, God tends to use imperfect people. When you discover that someone you looked up to failed a moral test, it can be hard for your own faith to recover.

So, let’s look to God and love everyone, even the fallen heroes.

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