My father was a writer. He wrote all of his life, inflicting upon many of us his novels, plays, articles, essays, and self-help books. Some were marvelous; some merely well-intentioned. But of all the things he wrote, his journal is his legacy: by turns wise and bewildering, it neared 1,100 type-written pages when he died in 2010. Although perused many times, this is the first time it will be read - cover to cover, page after page.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Caution
Peter did not think it necessary to caution Jesus until it came to the issue of dying and rising. He seemed able to permit rejection by the priests and leaders. The prospect of adversity maybe supported his need to be special, but that dying and then the rising. That made no sense. It was not done and Peter needed his life and belief to make sense. Maybe it is the making sense, the trying to introduce reasonableness into what was only open to belief, that prompted Jesus' rebuke. Perhaps that was the Satan to be put behind him.
Labels:
belief,
Jesus,
Peter,
reasonableness
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