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Courage Redefined: Part One

Writer's picture: Jamie KlusacekJamie Klusacek

I’ve always wanted to be a colossally courageous person. In my mind’s eye courage frequently portrayed the picture of me storming into enemy lines with a water pistol in my hand, rescuing destitute captives and somehow saving the day in ways that were impossible for the average person.


I would have no limitations. Unlimited strength, speed, and stamina.


Attached to courage, of course, was an act—an act that I deemed courageous. Usually this act was something that others could see. In plain view of the multitudes. For of course, a courageous act must be seen by others and deemed by them as courageous. Rescuing a child from a burning building or selling everything we own and donating the proceeds to those in need - those would be courageous acts.


I also, un-admittedly, used to define courage by how much I could accomplish in a day, a week, a year, a decade.


If God were truly for me and I was inherently courageous at my core, I could keep adding more to my plate, and naturally to my schedule. I didn’t need to say no or release things in order to handle more. I could do it all. In turn, I believed that God would supernaturally help me get more done.


When others would stare at my life in awe of how much I accomplished, I would pat myself on the back and give myself a silent “well done.” After all, I was being courageous for God, right?


Yet I found myself growing weary in my courage and bringing my overloaded self back to the feet of Jesus. I laid my weighty plate at His feet and asked Him to redefine my view of courage. Instead of blindly accepting that everything I had been doing was from God, I asked Him to place in my hands what He wanted me to do and help me release everything else.


As I prayed this prayer and walked with Him, I began to discover what true courage really means in the sight of God. From here a book was born, Courage to Walk.


True courage wasn’t what I thought. Perhaps for me, true courage began with a release of what I’d considered courageous in order to embrace God’s view on courage.


Releasing the false definition of courage that says true courage is doing what others deem as significant. That I need to be a hero in the eyes of others in order to walk confidently on the courageous path. But the truly courageous person admits that he or she is no hero.


"There’s only one Hero in this life and that’s Jesus."

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