Who needs a bodyguard?
In the film, ’The Bodyguard’ Kevin Costner stars as an ex-Secret Service agent who was injured as a bodyguard having ‘caught a bullet’ for the President. He reluctantly takes a job as a bodyguard for Rachel Marron (Whitney Houston), a superstar singer and actress. In one scene, the superstar’s young son asks the bodyguard what he fears most; he answers, “I’m afraid of not being there.” This is stirring stuff, the body guard thinks nothing of his own safety, he is willing to lay down his life for the one he has to protect. In contrast to this type of bravery, we often think of the disciples and friends of Jesus as being cowards, running away when danger came. This is surely unfair, some of them would have been prepared to put their lives up to defend Jesus and there were people who wanted to be like a bodyguard for Jesus. Think of that scene in the Garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26:47). Judas, the disciple who betrayed Jesus for money, came to the Garden with a large crowd armed with swo
