When Your Rooster Crows - Girlfriends in God - July 16, 2021

Sometimes our accuser continues to crow. But do you know what I've decided? Rooster makes a fine meal.

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July 16, 2021 When Your Rooster Crows  Sharon Jaynes Today's Truth "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8:1 NIV). Friend to Friend I sat on my back porch, wrapped in my fuzzy worn robe—the one that's twenty years old that I just can't seem to get rid of. The birch trees waved "good morning," and the newly planted gerbera daisies stretched their faces to the sun…just a bit higher than the day before. Then I heard him. The rooster. ER-er-ER-er-ERRRR. I'm not sure where he lives, but it's within earshot. ER-er-ER-er-ERRRR. I thought of Peter. I thought of me. I thought of you. You know the story. At the dinner table, on the night before Jesus went to the cross, he said to Peter: "Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers." But he replied, "Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death." Jesus answered, "I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will deny three times that you know me" (Luke 22:31-34). A few hours later, Peter did just that. Denied that he even knew Jesus. Three times. And then the rooster crowed. ER-er-ER-er ERRRR. "And he went outside and wept bitterly" (Luke 22:62). He cried and cried and cried. (I've messed up big time and cried and cried and cried before. Have you?) The next morning, the rooster crowed. And Peter remembered his failure. And the next, and the next, and the next. With every squawk of the bird. A fresh reminder. First thing in the morning. Have you ever been there? I have. I have failed. And I have remembered…the rooster crowed. And even though I had asked for forgiveness, and I knew that God HAD forgiven me, the rooster crowed in my heart, and I remembered my failure anew.   CONTINUE READING →

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