When I am afraid, I will put my trust in You. – Psalm 56:3

Hubby and I are old series junkies. We love to go on Amazon Prime Videos and watch old tv series in the evenings after everyone else is in bed. You know, the series we weren’t hip enough to watch back when they were actually first aired, and all the rage. Yeah, we’re those people.

Anywho, the latest series we’re into is 24. What a fun series! It has action and suspense and politics and intrigue. But mostly it has Jack Bauer. What a hero.

 

Jack, let me tell you, that man has some long days! I mean, does he ever sleep or eat or drink or even have to go to the bathroom? Nope, he’s too busy saving the rest of us, and we just sit here completely unaware, watching our old series in our mundane little lives. Go, Jack, Go!

So the other night we were finishing up with Season 2. This was a doozy of a day for our stalwart hero. I’ll shorten it up to the point for you. There was a nuclear bomb, in the middle of Los Angeles. Yep. It was tamper-proof, and discovered at the last minute. The only thing that would work, the only option left, was for someone to fly the nuke into the desert so that it would explode outside of a population. The pilot wouldn’t be returning, it was a one-way trip.

Guess who climbed into that cockpit… yep. Jack. He never fails to come through, does he? And this was after the man had already been tortured, doubted, sleep-deprived, and DIED. Yes, of course they brought him back, but only so they could torture him more. Jack needs a hug in the worst way.

So skip ahead a bit and you’ll see that Jack was able to parachute out of the plane while a dying man took it the rest of the way. So Jack lived, he was saved, but here’s the thing. He climbed into the cockpit, said goodbye to his friends and family, and flew off to die so the rest of us could live. He’s not faking this hero thing. He’s putting it all on the line. He’s a hero to the core.

Ok, you’ve stuck with my ramblings for this long so now I’ll get to the point. When Jack was ready to go after the bad guys who were actually behind this whole sordid terror plot, did the people he’d just saved line up behind him to back him up? No!

I know, right?! They didn’t! They in fact viewed him as a criminal and went against him, all because they didn’t trust what he knew. Because his theory seemed improbable and wasn’t what they wanted to hear.

Let me tell you, I was incensed on Jack’s behalf! In. Censed! I was ranting to my hubby, “This man just crawled into a plane to die for them and they can’t even believe him for just a couple hours? Didn’t he earn the benefit of the doubt when he was willing to end his life so they’d be safe? Hasn’t he proven at this point that he is trustworthy?”

Something to think about, dear ones.

We have a hero who’s much more heroic than Jack Bauer. Oh, and, um, yeah, He’s REAL.

So when things seem scary and His promises seem improbable, can’t we just believe Him for a couple of hours? Didn’t He earn the benefit of the doubt when he was willing to end His life so that we’d be saved?

Hasn’t He proven at this point that He is trustworthy?

Jesus, You are worthy of all of our trust, belief, honor, and praise. In Jesus’ Name, Amen…

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Shelly