Day 20 - Enjoy the Silence

Hi there!

Well we are at day 20, ten more to go. Today's is short with lots of scripture, so buckle in, and to make sure you get the most out of it, why not pray that God will really speak to you through these words. :)

Luke 22:54-62 ---

^54-56Arresting Jesus, they marched him off and took him into the house of the Chief Priest. Peter followed, but at a safe distance. In the middle of the courtyard some people had started a fire and were sitting around it, trying to keep warm. One of the serving maids sitting at the fire noticed him, then took a second look and said, "This man was with him!"

⁵⁷He denied it, "Woman, I don't even know him."

⁵⁸A short time later, someone else noticed him and said, "You're one of them."

But Peter denied it: "Man, I am not."

⁵⁹About an hour later, someone else spoke up, really adamant: "He's got to have been with him! He's got 'Galilean' written all over him."

^60-62Peter said, "Man, I don't know what you're talking about." At that very moment, the last word hardly off his lips, a rooster crowed. Just then, the Master turned and looked at Peter. Peter remembered what the Master had said to him: "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." He went out and cried and cried and cried.

How do you think Peter felt, knowing what he did? When have you felt this way? What are some ways you felt like you've betrayed Jesus in your everyday life? Journal it.

Now read about a later encounter between Jesus and Peter. :)

John 21:15-19 ---

¹⁵After breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?"

"Yes, Master, you know I love you."

Jesus said, "Feed my lambs."

¹⁶He then asked a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?"

"Yes, Master, you know I love you."

Jesus said, "Shepherd my sheep."

^17-19Then he said it a third time: "Simon, son of John, do you love me?"

Peter was upset that he asked for the third time, "Do you love me?" so he answered, "Master, you know everything there is to know. You've got to know that I love you."

Jesus said, "Feed my sheep. I'm telling you the very truth now: When you were young you dressed yourself and went wherever you wished, but when you get old you'll have to stretch out your hands while someone else dresses you and takes you where you don't want to go." He said this to hint at the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. And then he commanded, "Follow me.

Replay this in your mind as you read it again... but this time imagine it is you standing on the beach. Jesus is speaking right to you. What is he saying? How do you respond? Write out how you think the conversation would go in your journal.

:)

P.S. I AM FINISHED EXAMS! Praise God. No more grade eleven for me.

You are my passion.

-Colton