Daily Encouragement

As a little girl playing with friends on the playground, I always wanted to pretend to be the "damsel in distress" that would be rescued by the brave hero or knight or Zorro or whomever--I just wanted to be the one to be swept off my feet and delivered from the clutches of the evil villain. Then, when I had my own little girl, I'd watch her play with the other girls and someone just had to be the boy to be the hero, the rescuer, and since my daughter was more of a tom-boy, she always got chosen for that role. It was tough watching her be relegated to that role because of how her hair was cut or the stature of her body because deep down she was still a girl, a damsel, and not the brave knight. She didn't mind so much but since then she's grown her hair out and, well, this teenage girl just doesn't resemble much of a boy anymore.

Here and now, we have an honest-to-goodness hero who has rescued us from a fate worse than anything that evil villain could think up. Jesus Christ came to earth as a man, lived a sinless life (our white knight), and rescued us from our own sin and the consequences of that sin which is death (Romans 6:23) by sacrificing his own life for ours on the cross. You and I were/are indeed that damsel in distress, but we don't have to wait for that white knight--he's waiting for you!

"For he has rescued us from the one who rules in the kingdom of darkness, and he has brought us into the Kingdom of his dear Son. God has purchased our freedom with his blood and has forgiven all our sins." Colossians 1:13-14