Discovering Heroes
Thud. “Ouch.” Ashley Royce rubbed her backside and
when she saw that no harm had been done she gingerly arose from her position
and scanned her surroundings to see if anyone had seen her awkward
entrance. Apparently not. The nearby crowd was focused on some kind of
a fight. Ashley peeked around the lone
tree she had landed under to see if she recognized any of the contestants. No such luck.
A turbaned
man ran past her shouting “Did anyone see what I just saw? Unbelievable!”
Reaching
out to touch his shoulder Ashley asked, “And what was that sir?”
“The giant
has been killed. No one thought he could
do it but Israel has prevailed,” the man answered looking back at her over his
shoulder.
Ashley
stood frozen for a moment as she thought about what had just been shared. No, it was not possible. Or was it?
The next man she stopped confirmed her suspicions. “Did David kill the giant?”
“You have
heard of him? No one really knows who is
he is” he answered as he ran away to share the good news with his family nearly
tripping over his sandals.
With no one listening Ashley
whispered to the air, “Heard of him you ask? Isn’t he just one of the most
famous kings in the Bible?” Picking up the dusty Bible she nearly flung it into
the jubilant crowd. And just like that she was back at the
archeological site wiping her brow from the extreme heat.
Crunch, crunch, crunch. Leaning against the bed with her elbows on
her knees Ashley carefully ate the last bag of her favorite American chips and
in between licking her fingers for every last crumb explained her predicament
to Callie, her best friend and team dog.
It had only been an hour since her discovery and already trouble was
brewing, she could just feel it. How
could she keep a secret of this magnitude and who could she trust to help her?
Kneeling down before the tattered
Bible on the floor Ashley experimented.
The last time she had traveled to the time of David and Goliath by
accident. Cautiously she opened the
pages to her favorite passage, Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 6. Just like that she was transported to what
she could only guess was the time of Jesus’ ministry. Again she was on the edge of a crowd
underneath the only tree she could see.
Callie was by her side busy with licking the chip package she had been
eyeing for a long time. A booming voice
broke through the stillness “But seek first the kingdom of God and his
righteousness, and all these things will be added to you” (Matthew 6:33 ESV). Ashley didn’t recognize the voice but she
knew there was only one person it could belong to.
Elbowing her way through the crowd
as gracefully as she could Ashley soon found herself face to face with her
Savior. As he spoke the next verse his
eyes seemed to bore right into hers with some kind of a warning. A warning for what? She didn’t know what
tomorrow would bring but took his words to heart to only worry about today and
its troubles (Matthew 6:34 ESV). Somehow
everything would work out and in the meantime she could enjoy the adventure of
experiencing firsthand the lives and times of her favorite Bible
characters. Maybe she could learn a
thing or two from her heroes.
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