Alright, so this is kind of silly, but serious too. And i hope, and definitely don’t intend to be blasphemous in anyway:
No, this isn’t a picture of me…..if you look closely his biceps are slightly smaller than mine. But yeah, that’s Hercules. In 6th grade I had to do a book report on someone in Greek Mythology, I chose Hercules. After I read the book on Hercules, I wanted to be Hercules. And I kind of still do. I relate a lot of times with people that aren’t real, which sounds silly…because it kind of is, but I think there’s a lot you can gain from applying stories to your life, here’s just a couple ways, Hercules applies to mine:
-Hercules was a screwup, but he was given chances at redemption
-Hercules was given seemingly impossible tasks, the myths called them “labors”–i like this term. We’ve been given labors as well, and like Hercules I/we can complete them when we put trust in our Creator instead of ourselves
-Hercules was able to be successful over his enemies, because he was not fully human; he was born from a god and a mortal woman. This allowed him the ability to conquer foes and do things simple humans couldn’t. PLEASE REALIZE, I’m in no way saying i’m half-god. I am 100% human. But as Christians, we have God, Christ, the Spirit living inside us, which gives us a huge advantage over anything, and we need to realize this when combatting human trafficking (and anything for that matter). We are not merely men (and women, and the unthinkable, and the impossible, can be done, but not on our abilities.
Make sense? Hope so.
