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Former President Donald Trump survived an attempt on his life last weekend.

We can be thankful for that. God clearly was protecting him from death.

But even as the former commander-in-chief and presumptive Republican nominee has more days marked out for his life, one of the rally attendees did not.

Corey Comperatore, a firefighter who lived in Sarver, Pennsylvania, attended the rally as an outing with his family. But he never left, because he protected them with his life once the shooting started.

His daughter said on social media that her father was a “real-life superhero.”

“They are not going to tell you how quickly he threw my mom and I to the ground. They are not going to tell you that he shielded my body from the bullet that came at us,” she reflected. “He loved his family. He truly loved us enough to take a real bullet for us.”

What an absolute hero indeed.

The virtue displayed by Comperatore was not only evident in his death, but also throughout his life. The husband and father of two was a volunteer firefighter, a devoted church member, and an overall active participant in the life of his family and his community.

We all probably know that the central call of the Christian life is to not only repent of our sins and believe the gospel, but then to emulate Jesus by imitating his self-sacrificial death, as we likewise love others so much that we are willing to die for them.

We usually apply this to our actual dying day, wondering if we will have the fortitude to, for example, not reject Christ if we were threatened with martyrdom, as the apostles eventually did.

But our self-sacrificial death, as was evident in the life of Comperatore, should happen every single day, every single hour, and even every single moment of our lives.

Death to self. Life unto Christ.

All of us, and especially us men, should labor to protect and provide for our families.

We should be joyful and godly presences in our homes. We should lead our loved ones in family worship, church attendance, and personal pursuit of the Lord.

We must not be passive like Adam, but active leaders like Jesus.

We should make hard decisions that protect the bodies and souls of our families, even if they do not understand in the moment why such hard decisions may be necessary.

When we inevitably fail, and even when we grievously fail, we can run to Christ for forgiveness, and we can move forward in his strength to fulfill our duties faithfully.

In a cultural moment where manhood is exceedingly rare, every Christian man has the potential to bless our society, and especially those closest to us, simply by being a faithful Christian man.

Rest in peace, Corey Comperatore.