I think we all like heroes. You know the type...mild-mannered newspaper reporter Clark Kent who runs into the nearest phone booth to become Superman when help is needed. (Can you imagine him trying to find a phone booth today?) Heroes and heroines are always endowed with some type of superhuman power(s), and when they come to rescue they use those powers to "save the day." If you were a super-hero what sort of power(s) would you want?

Now imagine that it was up to you to save the entire human race...what would be your plan and what would be your power? From eternity past God set out to do exactly that--save the lost, struggling and dying human race. God's plan to save us was shocking, something nobody would ever think of, He would send His Son. No x-ray vision, no invisible jet, and no fancy cape. He would come clothed in human flesh (Philippians 2:7) armed with love. Those around Him expected something powerfully spectacular (1 Corinthians 1:22), but to their surprise He came in humility. Paul calls this God's wisdom and power--the cross. This is why Paul wrote,

"For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God." (1 Corinthians 1:18)

God's power to save through the cross was no expected, but it was the only way to rescue us. Too many want a savior who is like Superman or Wonder Woman, and when we don't get what we expect we become disillusioned and disappointed. In the end some walk away from Him because it seems so silly to follow a murdered hero. But this is precisely what God wants us to do; He wants us to follow His Son, a most unlikely hero.

Grace & Peace,

Scott