Human Greatness is Deeply Flawed

Every great man or woman of faith's feet are just clay. 'That is what human greatness is—deeply flawed.

There is one hero, and only one, who will not let you down—Jesus Christ. All other heroes fail us, and the reason they do is to point us to Christ. There is no one more admirable, and more worthy of our praise, than Christ. At the very moment when he looked least praiseworthy, he was achieving the highest triumph of love—his death.'

There are many benefits to reading about great heroes of faith be they biblical or modern. 'And among other great reasons one of them is: admiring and disillusioned I turn to Jesus.'


I had to paraphrase some of this to make it a generic statement (when Piper originally wrote it he was referring to Lincoln) but I think I got the gist of what it's saying. I have been discovering this more and more. Whenever I look to another man or woman for an example to follow I am always disappointed. And it has served a great purpose. It has forced me to look to Christ. No man or woman that has existed or will exist will ever be worthy of praise of admiration. Christ alone is worthy of all adoration and He ALONE deserves to given the title, "HERO".