Friday, May 15, 2009
"Lord, as I read further into this event with Peter, give me a vision into his head and heart, so that I can see into, and learn from his experience, and to be caught up into the 'net' of salvation. Amen"
SHAPING, AND THE GRANDCHILDREN OF PETER
A little later someone else saw him and said, "You also are one of them." "Man, I am not!" Peter replied. About a hour later another asserted, "Certainly this fellow was with him, for he is a Galilean." Peter replied, "Man, I don't know what you're talking about!" Just as he was speaking, the rooster crowed. The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word the Lord had spoken to him: "Before the rooster crows today, you will disown me three times." And he went outside and wept bitterly. Luke 22:58-62
Dear followers of Christ Jesus:
What shaped Peter, a man of fishes, to be a "fisher of men?" Who destined him to become whom he became - who but God himself? There can be no doubt that the Deceiver too was deeply involved in his shaping, but Light shapes and limits darkness, to the glory of God.
I am learning to live with two sets of eyes - night eyes, which see into darkness with a truer vision of what it is and how it operates; and eyes of light, which are overcoming the darkness. It is a vital part of the process of our shaping.
Much of our life is lived in shadow, but, as in Nature, the order of events causes light to chase it away. Jesus was Light all of His life, but by Divine planning, the nature of things was reversed, and for a while darkness was allowed to rule. When darkness comes to Light it can only be temporary; it is a part of the nature of God, who is both Life and Light, to allow it to be so.
"If God is for us, who then can be against us?" Darkness, even though it must come for a time, will not prevail. It didn't with Jesus, nor Peter, nor will it with us! The morning of the resurrection of Jesus would see an enlightened Peter, and we are children of the same Light, and we are destined to see, and to be shaped by it, to the glory of God!
Lowell Martin
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