“Save the cheerleader, save the world.”

Anyone watching the new show “Heroes”? Anyone not watching it? I really liked last week’s episode b/c the first half of the show’s tagline finally come to fruition. The cheerleader was saved! Now she just needs to save the world! I also liked it so much b/c Peter became the ultimate hero. He knew he stood a chance to die, but he took the risk of traveling to Claire so he could save her life. He saw his own death in a futuristic painting, but he still knew he had to take the chance to save the cheerleader. He didn’t know how, but he knew he had to do it anyway. How many of us would risk our own life to save another?
There’s a really obvious parallel here. Jesus did that for us. He knew he would not only die, but would suffer what was possibly the most violent death any human has ever experienced (it was even worse than what was portrayed in the movie “The Passion of the Christ”). Yet He did it willingly. And His story is not some comic book fantasy, but it actually happened, and He truly has saved the world!