Fairytales

What's your most favourite fairytale? The one that sort of captures your heart, the one that makes your heart beat faster and, well, lets face it, the one with the dashing hero that always ends up coming to the rescue?

I'll be honest, I'm a romantic. I love the romance, I love the dashing hero who rushes in to sweep the damsel off her feet. I've read the books, you know the ones, with the intrigue and the heroism and just the right touch of romance. I've watched the movies and I've yearned for it all. I would quite willingly be the damsel in distress if it meant that some knight on a white horse would come swooping in and save me.

It's taken me a while and I've had to go through some tough stuff to learn it, but I'm finally understanding something. I've already got my dashing hero. I've already been rescued. Not quite in the way that the fairytales do it, but a way that I think is better, and still has that perfect touch of romanticism.

Take a look:

"I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. "He will rule them with an iron sceptre." He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:

KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS."

Revelation 19:11-16

Doesn't that just make your heart swoon?!?! There he is, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, Jesus, your knight in shining armour, coming to your rescue. I can just envision myself standing on a grassy knoll, dress flowing in the wind and watching as my Knight swoops down with the hosts of heaven obliterating the ones that would do me harm. It's almost got a Lord of the Rings feel to it, when the Riders of Rohan come to the rescue of Gondor (label me a nerd, I've come to accept it, now you should too). I get almost giddy! I've always wanted to be rescued, I've always wanted to watch as my man steps in a saves me from... whatever. And here, in the word of God, I have it. He's stepped in, on more than one occasion, and saved me.

And then it makes me wonder, why on earth am I looking for something more? You know what I mean? I'm single and for the first time in my adult life (I wish I was joking) I'm Ok with that. More than Ok. I'm happy with it, and I look forward to what my Knight is going to do, it makes me excited.

"He brought me out into a spacious place; He rescued me because he delighted in me."

Psalm 18:19

So that fairytale I've been looking for? That knight in shining armour, the one with the white horse? I can stop looking, I've found him.