“I still don’t understand,” Eddie whispered. “What good came from your death?”
“You lived,” the Blueman answered. “But we barely knew each other. I might as well have been a stranger.”
The Blueman put his arms on Eddie’s shoulders. Eddie felt that warm melting sensation.
“Strangers,” the Blueman said, “are just family you have yet to come to know.” 49
Someone has to die so other may live. Blueman has to die so Eddie may life. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole 49.
4.2.2 Sacrificing
Sometimes people just focus on what they have lost instead of what they have gained from the lost. They are too worried about what they have given rather than what
they can get from that, but Jesus never does that. He sacrifices Himself crusified as the payment of our sins Hebrew 7: 27. However, human oftentimes fails to realize this
and focusses only on His justice and things that He wants us to avoid. So does Eddie. He fails to realize how the Captain has saved his life, but he
focusses more on why Captain has to shoot his leg that causes him unable to live a normal life as a norma l person. However, every person makes their own sacrifice in
theirlives. Their selfishness make them unable to see that what they have done may be useful for others. The Captain teaches Eddie what sacrifice means.
“SACRIFICE,” THE CAPTAIN said. “You made one. I made one. We all make them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you
lost. “You didn’t get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not
something to regret. It’s something to aspire on. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take
care of her sick father. “A man goes to war……” 93
Everyone makes sacrifice in their lives. The Captain teaches Eddie that sacrifice is a part of life. Sometimes when one sacrifices something precious, he is not really loosing
it. He is just passing it to someone else. 92. “I shot you, all right,” he said, “and you lost something, but you gained
something as well. You just don’t know it yet. I gained something too.” “What?”
“I got to keep my promise. I didn’t leave you behind.” 94
Sacrifice is the fact of giving up something valuable that we possess for a good purpose, just like Jesus that has to give up His life crucified to enter His glory Luke
24: 26. The Captain gives his valuable life that he possesses for a good purpose, so that Eddie and his men in the troop may live.
If the Captain sacrifices himself to keep his promise, this man, Jesus, sacrifices Himself because He love us so much, that He does not want us to die in sins but live in
righteousness. It is Gods will that Jesus Christ die on the cross for the redemption of mankind from sin. Talking to the Father, Jesus Christ says, “Sacrifices and offerings,
burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them although the law required them to be made. Here I am, I have come to do Your will.
Hebrews 10:8-9 Paul said that Jesus Christ came to set aside the first covenant to establish the
second. Christ is the mediator of the new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance-now that He has died as a ransom to set them
free from the sins committed under the first covenant. Hebrews 9:15 Jesus never regrets about what he has sacrificed for us. What He has done for
us because He wants to give the most precious thing that He has in order to give PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
opportunity to us to enter the kingdom of heaven. For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that
you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or
defect. He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake 1 Peter 1:18-20.
Christ does not get any advantage from His sacrificing, but never He focusses on what He has given.
The Captain has taught Eddie that when someone gives up his precious things, he is not really loosing it, but he just passes it to someone else. Just the same as what
was written in the Bible that when Jesus gives Himself crucified, He is not really loosing His life, but He passes the salvation to us, so that we can live within and for
Him 2 Corinthian 5: 15, to reach the eternal life in heaven.
4.2.3 Forgiveness
