When you think of someone brave, who is it? Do you find yourself thinking of somebody in the past? Not necessarily the far past, of course, but someone who has done something already?
What about people who are brave right now? People who are doing something that calls for tremendous faith in the power of good to overcome evil while they're "in harm's way." When we're looking back, bravery is relatively easy to discern. After the smoke of battle has cleared and the outcome is known, bravery often shines brightly.
The Bible, of course, has stories of many brave men and women. But if you go back and read the stories without thinking about their endings, you begin to glimpse what bravery looks like before the outcome is known. Take someone like Moses, for example. He'd left his life in Egypt behind. He had been living in Midian for years. He had a wife and children who had nothing to do with his earlier Egyptian life or upbringing. Returning to Egypt was probably the farthest thing from his thought. And yet all along there was something percolating. Eventually he returned.
