Weekend, April 25, 2020
Hope for Flawed People
"And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had said to him, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times" (Luke 22:61 nkjv).
Simon Peter, definitely one of most colorful individuals in the entire Bible, is perhaps my favorite. It's probably because I relate to him somewhat, as many of us do. He seemed to have a terminal case of foot-in-mouth disease.
When Jesus was at a place called Caesarea Philippi, He began to speak in great detail about the fact that He was going to be betrayed, beaten, and crucified, and that He would rise on the third day.
So, Simon Peter took it upon himself to rebuke Jesus, essentially saying, "What are you talking about? What are you saying? This is crazy talk, Jesus. There's no way that you can be betrayed and die and all that."
In response, Jesus actually had to tell him, "Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men" (Matthew 16:23 nkjv).
The Gospels give a lot of ink to Peter's statements, which indicate that he kept coming back for more. Whatever Peter committed to, he threw himself into it wholeheartedly. Either he was knocking it out of the park or striking out. It rarely was anything in between. |
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