What would it take for today’s saints to look more like the heroes of old? For one thing, we’d need to adopt their attitude toward adversity.
Instead of running from hardship, and freaking out over failure like normalized culture does today, we need to look to the wisdom that guided the great men.
What made the same Apostle Peter who quivered at the questions of a serving girl cursing a blue streak that he didn’t even know the man go fearlessly toe-to-toe with the religious leaders of his day AFTER the resurrection?
What made David the king, who once knocked up his buddy’s wife and had him killed to hide it, pray with the courage and confidence of somebody who knows his check will clear with God?
They learned Resilience.
“Why do we fall, Master Wayne? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.”
No, wait — that’s from Batman. But it was borrowed wisdom from Solomon: “Though a righteous man falls seven times, he will get up…”
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