When you are confused or hurt by those you trust, remember this: in Him there is no darkness or shadow; no fickleness or change (1 John 1:5; James 1:17). When other helpers fail and other comforts flee, He has made His home with you forever (John 14:23).
~ Daniel Hames, The New Life, p. 33
The stoic warrior is not the image of the Christian hero. The Christian hero is the man of courageous trust.
This man can run straight into combat on an open field. He can stand up in a crowd and saw the truth when all others lie. He can shed blood for Christ. This, though, is not the common, everyday way of life.
Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends (John 15:13).
Often it is not blood, but toil and tears unseen. Often it is not speaking the truth in the town square when the final hour has come, but living in the truth in the workplace. Often it is not running point blank into live-fire to take the bullet meant for the innocent, but plunging head over heels into another long day, ending with dinner and plenty of potential for diatribes with people just as sinful as ourselves.
Fix your heart here, in the God who does not change. In His hour, Christ died and rose again, gaining the victory over sin, death, and hell – and He is towards His church today as He was then: winning her affection through stooping low to save, serve, and care for her in her sin, weaknesses, and afflictions.
Let the heroic heart of Christ grip you today. Trusting in His unchanging courage for us, let Him strengthen our hearts from the inside out.
Standing Before God, This We Are and No More 