Rock On!

[Jesus said] I say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.

Matthew 16:18 

 

 Peter denied Christ and felt so incredibly horrible that he wept bitterly.  He would have done pretty much anything for a do-over. How easy would it have been for Jesus to tell Peter, "You messed up this time! You have no place in My mission! YOU are DONE!"

 

I've seen an adage which goes something like this: "Do everything right, no one notices.  People only focus on the mistakes."  We're good about forgetting the good people do.  We're also good and zeroing in on the mistakes others do, without ever looking at the mistakes we do.  Then we have the audacity of wondering why morale drops, depression sets in, and people become jaded. Why do we do that?  

 

 How many times have you wanted another chance?  The cold, hard fact of the matter is that what's done is done, what's said is said, nothing can be undone, unsaid, or unseen.  Our time on this marble only moves forward.  That's the bad news.

The good news is that God is the God of second chances.  Jesus not only forgave Peter for denying Him, He went a step further and gave Peter another chance.  Not just any chance, but the chance beyond Peter's wildest dreams!  God knows ALL of our mistakes, but chooses to focus on our potential.