Joseph and Frodo

So today I couldn't really think of myself being courageous... or cowardly. But I did think a lot about it.

In devotions today I read about Joseph. The workcrafter guy who was pretty much... boring. God could've chose some priest or pharisee, but he chose Joseph. Joseph was put in a position where he had to give up his reputation for taking a wife and a "illegitemate" son, being called a lunatic for talking to an angel, and spending the night of his son's birth in a filthy stable. Despite all that he chose to take Mary as his wife and Jesus as his son and face the problems and the people.

It reminds me of Frodo. In the tunnels underground he talks to Gandalf and says that he didn't choose this situation and he didn't want this situation. Gandalf wisely says that heroes are not the ones who make the situations, but the ones who decide the outcomes.

That is courage to me. When God places a problem in life. Like cancer, divorce, bad grades. We become defined as courageous or cowardly. We either pout about the situation or say, "God, help me fight this fight with your armor". For truly, we need not fear anything no matter what because we have got the greatest power of the universe on our side. With that we are truly more than even a heroic hobbit.