Saturday of the Seventh Week of Easter
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May 30, 2020After being distressed about Jesus stooping to his level yesterday, Peter still struggles with human sins. He was disturbed about how Jesus realized that Peter could not love Him as he should. Now jealous over John.
Is peter worried that john can love Jesus with the love Peter was not yet able to give? Instead of focusing on how he can improve his love, he was focusing on if another person was better than him, and if John would move in on his relationship with Jesus.
Imagine who we could be and become if we just kept our focus on Jesus, instead of comparing who someone else is to us, or what someone else did or accomplished, or trying to be better than someone else, or upset if they seem better at something than us.
These focuses and jealousies keep us from developing our talents, our personality, and mainly who we are, our love just as it paralyzed Peter until Peter shaped up, matured.
We are all different, and that difference allows us to become the best we could be, the best organ in the Body of Christ, the best brick as a living stone in the Temple. In this way, working together, we will be a beautiful Body of Christ, or a beautiful temple housing Him.
Using Peter as an example to learn from, let us go forth with our only focus centered on Jesus and become the “best” just as Jesus wanted Peter to do.
