To be honest, I had given up any hope that there could be a redemptive arc for “Crosshair” from the Bad Batch series… after he revealed that his merciless actions in service to the Empire did not came from an inhibitor chip but were from his own self-righteous beliefs, it seemed like he was lost for good. But his cold heart shifted the day that he chose to sacrificially pick up and carry an injured fellow trooper through dangerous and freezing conditions for miles… a soldier who was as hopelessly broken and damaged externally as Crosshair was internally. But in that moment, Crosshair didn’t judge his fallen brother for how he got into that position or leave him behind because he was a hopeless case… he simply picked him up and carried him back to base.

Our relationship with the Lord is an incredible, unearned gift, but if receiving His grace makes us think we’re better than those who’ve fallen or are on the outside of our faith, we’ve completely missed the point. All of His children are fellow brothers and sisters that we’ve been instructed to pick up and carry back to base… regardless of how they got there in the first place. We were given His gift of love and mercy so we can carry it to others who are in need, and that includes those we may consider to be hopeless cases… because we were once a hopeless case, too.

Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Galatians 6:1-3

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 1 Corinthians 15:9-10

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