“You’re My New Superhero!”

We all like heroes. Marvel Comics has proven that with their highly successful movies. It can make us feel good knowing that someone can do something that we cannot do. Perhaps, inside all of us is a secret desire to be a superhero. To have the abilities to do things, hopefully for others, that would help them or better their lives.

Recently, when out and about, I may stop and ask someone for some help. For instance, last week, I asked an older lady at Aldis where they keep ricotta cheese. She told me that it would probably be with the cottage cheese. A few minutes later, I would learn that it indeed was.

I thanked her for her help and said, “You’re my new superhero. In fact, are you wearing a cape?” as I looked behind her. She started laughing pretty loudly and exclaimed, “Oh my goodness. You just made my day.” I have used that line several times, and it always makes people smile and feel special. There is also a popular song titled “Hero” by the Christian rock group Skillet.

Two of the lines in the song go like this:

A hero’s not afraid to give his life
A hero’s gonna save me just in time.

One might say that Jesus Christ is the ultimate hero. He laid down his life for us because he was not afraid to die. He knew three days later he would be alive again. And he came here from heaven to save us from eternal death. By accepting him and what he did on the cross, which forgives us of our sins, we can live forever with him.

You need a hero. You need Jesus. Please accept or invite him into your life to save you and then to help you with whatever you need. With anything that matters to you, because it matters to him.

“This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person’s failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him. John 3:16-18 (MSG)

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