‘There’s a puddle of water behind the toilet,’ my wife informs me. ‘Oh no!’ I think. I hope it’s nothing.

Roll on another night and the puddle has returned, water dripping from the inlet pipe. ‘I’ll sort it,’ I think to myself and quickly go to get some tools. I return, spanner in hand determined to show the leak who’s boss.

Leaning over, I engage the spanner on the nut and gently apply some pressure. I mean gently – I barely touch it. Then, crack! The pipe snaps clean off, water pouring everywhere.

For a few seconds I’m mesmerised by the flowing water and then I snap myself out of it. I spot an isolation valve and rush for a screwdriver.

By the time I return a lake is forming on the floor. In the panic I forget how slippery our floor gets when it’s wet. It doesn’t take me long to remember as I land flat on my back in a ¼ inch of water.

It knocks some sense into me as I remember the stop cock under the sink – why didn’t I think of that first? Like an army general I give out orders – ‘turn the taps on to reduce the pressure’, ‘get some towels’ – and I march to the kitchen to turn the water off. Small flood to clean up, major flood thwarted.

Adventure over, I finally make it to breakfast. My daughter has made up a new song. ‘Daddy’s a hero, Daddy’s a hero.’ I smile, but at the same time I feel a bit of a fraud. If only I’d turned the water off first, then none of this would have happened. But to my daughter, that didn’t matter. To her I was a hero!

That did make me think. The Bible tells me that Jesus came into this world to save people from something much worse than a flood. It says, he came to save us from sin by dying on the cross. That’s pretty big. Do I see him as the hero he is?

If you want to know more about Jesus, we’re putting out a series of videos that go step by step through Mark’s Gospel. Mark is a book in the Bible that tells us about the life of Jesus. This would be a great way to see what the Bible says and what it might mean for you.

Praying you all keep safe and well.