Who are God's heroes ?

So most of the big names left Wimbledon early on resulting in fewer spectators! It’s a general principle that we like the people we know. Fame does not have to be founded on talent. Enter the celebrity.
Think how much money you’d take at your village fete if you persuaded Alan Titchmarsh or Alex Jones to make an appearance! Our celebrities are mostly just people in the public eye made popular by films and the media.
I think it’s the same with the appeal of the soaps! We can follow certain characters several days a week. Then anyone of them will be appearing on game shows, cooking programmes, dance and ice shows, always increasing their public profile.
But this is not the frame that God puts round his “people pictures”. Who does he honour?  He sees the elderly carer clearing up after his wife’s incontinence and smiles with love.  He gives five stars to the young mum up all night with precious little sleep for days over a crying baby. He puts the tick “like” in the box next to the loving child with Down’s syndrome.  These are his heroes!
“God’s a bit beyond my reach “you might say.  Yes, he is.  Happily, however, he sent his Son Jesus as a human being with feelings like ours, and receiving him into our lives enables us to look a bit less to the current celebrity culture and more to his own plumb line of goodness.

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