As you hear the knock at the door, your heart is beating so fast that you’re sure he can see it beating through your chest when you muster up the courage to open it and say hello. For the past hour or so, you’ve tried on a multitude of outfits, made sure every hair was perfectly in place, and your makeup was applied just right. Your phone’s been blowing up with text messages from your friends anxious to hear about what you’re wearing, where you’re going and demanding to hear from you as soon as your night is over. It’s your first date with another guy and the question that resonates in your mind is simply this, “Is he going to be like all the others?”
He tells you you’re beautiful. He does everything right. He makes you feel like you’re the only girl in the room and for a while you forget there are even other people in the restaurant. When it’s time to go he pays without even the slightest hesitation. Every car door is opened for you and he could not act like a more perfect gentleman. Tonight you realize how you had forgotten what it was like to get this kind of attention from a guy. You realize how much you’ve missed it.
A few months later you find yourself in the same position you have been in countless times before, which happens to be the one you feared the most. As you lay in the fetal position crying your eyes out and bearing your pain before the Lord, there’s a still small voice that beckons you to your knees. At first you brush it away and then that still small voice grows louder and louder, “My precious child, get on your knees.”
There is power when you are on your knees. As you cry out to the Lord it is as if you can feel the Lord embracing you in His everlasting strong arms. For our God is the one who will wipe away every tear from your eyes. (Revelation 21:4). It is here, at this moment, you feel something stronger than flattery…you feel the everlasting love of Jesus, to which nothing can compare.
In the most recent version of the movie Footloose, the preacher’s daughter, who happens to be the main character, gets involved with the wrong guy. As he pressures her into having sex with him for the first time, the song “Holding Out For a Hero” by Ella Mae Browning begins to play…
“Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods? Where’s the streetwise Hercules to fight the rising odds? Isn’t there a white knight upon a fiery steed? Late at night I toss and turn and dream of what I need…I need a hero, I’m holding out for a hero till the end of the night, He’s gotta be strong, he’s gotta be fast, and he’s gotta be fresh from the fight. I need a hero, I’m holding out for a hero til the morning light. He’s gotta be sure, he’s gotta be soon, and he’s gotta be larger than life…”
We’ve all had these moments of wondering where all the good men have gone and if there really is a god who cares about the depths of our souls. It is that moment of wondering if the guy at the front door is going to be like the others who have left you crying yourself to sleep, or if he’s going to be different than all the rest.
A few years ago, at a very low point of my life, when my heart had been shattered unlike any other time I had ever experienced, I remember being curled up in a ball on my bed sobbing my eyes out and asking the Lord, “Where are you?!” His response was as vivid in my heart as if He had spoken audibly to me, “My child, I haven’t gone anywhere. I was here all along, you’re the one who turned away. Turn around, I’m right here. Come to me.”
After I had heard this song a few more times, I couldn’t help but think of that lonely night a few years ago. As I remembered the feelings of that night when my heart had felt broken and shattered, I began to hear the Lord’s sweet, soft voice beckon me to His side.
As the song started playing through my headphones I heard the Lord saying, first softly…I’m your hero. Then louder…I’m your hero…I’M…YOUR…HERO.
He said, I’m here til the end of the night…I’m here through the night…and I’m here in the morning when I place the sun in the right place to rise.
I’m strong enough…I created this world. I hold it in my hands.
I’m fast enough…I never leave your side.
Not only am I fresh from the fight, but I won the fight…I conquered the grave…there is nothing that I can’t take care of.
I’m SO much better than Superman! I am always with you…always. I don’t have to get a call for help because I’m standing right next to you always.
I am very aware of what you are going through and when you need my superhero strength.
I’m so much larger than life…I created this world and I am the One who gave you life.
You don’t need a hero…you need ME. I am your hero.
I love you more than any hero on this earth ever could and I will always love you with that kind of love.
But don’t worry my child, I’ll give you an earthly hero one day…but in the meantime…don’t forget to let me romance you…and even when that earthly hero comes along…keep me number one. I’m not going to disappoint you…I promise. You are not forgotten.
“…because you are precious and honored in my sight, and I love you.” – God (Isaiah 43:4)
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