A simple question for theists

[Rhondazvous]

I don't know. When I reflect on both the historical and typically dire situations, I would like to believe I would be/been the hero, but there really isn't any way to know is there? If I were an early Christian would I have renounced Christ rather than die a martyr? Before the Civil War would I have been a slaveholder or an abolitionist? If I were a German in 1930's would I have succumbed to Nazi propaganda or provided assistance to fleeing Jews? Very few did. Tomorrow if, I see someone being beaten up by thugs or trapped in burning car would I rush in to save them? Whatever the circumstances I would hope to be the hero, but maybe I would be scared.

Speculation is fine but I guess the more pertinent and real question for me, one I ask myself all the time, is am I doing what God is calling me to do, right now. And I really wish I knew for sure that I was.

what makes it complex is parties on both sides of the issues you've brought up thought that they were the heroes at the time those things were happening. Only the prevalent sentiments of today allow us to look back and declare that Hitler was an evil man and what the Romans did to the Christians or what the slavemasters did to the slaves was wrong. when that changes, the heroes shift and we view history through a different lens.

god's will and what he wants us to do can only be seen in hindsight. There's no way to clearly distinguish the voice of god from our own thoughts except through the lens of how things turned out.