“No matter what comes
my way, I will follow God. No matter
what the enemy brings my way, I will still stand for God”.
These are words that most of us speak so carelessly without
counting the cost. Through the years and
especially this year, I have learnt the hard way that those words are precious
and should not be spoken lightly.
Jesus asked Peter, "do you love me?" He asked him, why aren’t you leaving me like
all the others? Peter said, ‘Lord I love
you, I will follow you even to death’.
He said, "who should we go to? You have the words that bring life. We have nowhere to go".
I am sure Peter meant every word when he said he loved
Jesus. I am sure in his heart, Peter
meant every word. Matthew 26:33-35.
Peter with all his heart desired to be faithful to God but when things begun to
get tough and complicated with his life hanging in the balance, he said “I
don’t know the man’’ Matthew 26:69-75.
When we are faced with too many challenges and we are at the
place where we feel the most hurt, that is when our self preserving instincts
kick in, and at that moment, surviving becomes our priority.
Peter at that moment didn’t remember how he boldly declared,
‘I will follow you to death’. He had the
right kind of heart and he did love God.
Peter knew Jesus was the one spoken off by the prophets. He had been
with Jesus for 3 years. He knew Jesus personally but in that hour, that
precious dark hour, when all he could see was death, pain and torture, he chose
his life over that of his beliefs.
It is so easy to promise everything when we haven’t been
stretched to the limit of our endurance, but when we have reached that limit
when we feel the rope is about to break, when we have hit rock bottom and there
is no more sand to sink into and nowhere else to turn, what will we say?.....to be continued
Written by Aba Dadson
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