Hebrews 11:35 Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life. 36 Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. 37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword.
This cluster of unnamed heroes have something in common: in faith they did not do anything - they could not do anything, but trust in God. The two women had to watch and wait as Elijah and Elisha raised their sons. Others were put in positions where they could not fight back, and helplessly be abused. Some faced the most cruel types of suffering and death. Yet they are heros - they believed, and they have demonstrated to us that it is not true that "I cannot take any more." They did. May God give us the grace we need to live by faith.
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