Read Today's Passage
I love reading this chapter to close out the Journey With Jesus Challenge. Here we see Jesus once again appear to His disciples after He came back to life. Were the disciples just chilling, had some of them gone back to their former lives, or were they simply in between "speaking engagements?" Was Peter fishing naked? Did Jesus conceal His identity from them like He did the travelers on their way to Emmaus, or did the disciples simply not catch on that this was Him?
And I love the symbolism of Jesus asking Peter three times if he loved Him. Peter denied Jesus three times, so Jesus asks for confirmation three times. I can only imagine what was going through Peter's head at this time. And then to be told that he will be killed for his faith, wow. But he does not run away from his responsibility this time. Peter has grown up in his faith.
We should be like Peter. We are fallen, but Jesus asks us to do much. We should follow Him and His example and do it.
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