WHERE HAVE ALL THE HEROES GONE?

MI DAILY DEVOTION (Hebrews 11:1; 39- 40)
WHERE HAVE ALL THE HEROES GONE?
1- “For by it the elders obtained a good report. 39- And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: 40- God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.”
I’ve taken this phrase from John C. Maxwell book “Think on These Things”. “Where have all the heroes gone?” It’s very true and relevant question for all of us. Our young people and children look at some of the Hollywood stars as their heroes and role model. It’s so obvious that some of the Hollywood stars are not concern about moral values, don’t believe in God and others don’t even exercise religion. Some of those who are so called stars in the Hollywood would even practice same sex marriage or supports the idea of same sex marriage. But our youth look at them as their heroes and role model. They copy and even live up to the words of these people. In the spiritual or religious realm, we have the same things going on right now both in churches and religious organizations. I remember when I was in a Bible College where the President of the said institution was being modeled by many students. They copied the way he preached, his preaching and his mannerism and even his life and personality. I like and love him but I’m a different person with different personality, so when I was learning and growing as a minister I said to myself; “I’m not going to do other students are doing, I want to be different…” I’m not Dr. Gavino S. Tica and I will be different. Our heroes should be the Lord Jesus Christ, the prophets and the Lord’s disciples who lived up to the standard of the Word of God and who was an example of His love and passion. As Christians, we should follow the Lord and follow the example of the pastors and man of God who lives and love the Lord and His Word. We are vulnerable to sin, temptation and even failures and mistakes, but we can be different. We good and great athletes like Manny Pacquiao or Michael Jordan. We have great singers in the secular world and best and talented singers in the spiritual world like Scott Wesley Brown, Steve Green or Amy Grant and others who lived up the Word of God. I have some of my friends on Facebook that are my heroes as Christian singers and talented individual. So the question would be, “Where have all the heroes gone?” (I Peter 1:14- 16) 14- “As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: 15- But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16- Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.”