The Need to Stay Connected...

Our humanity.... is fickle. Our ways are not God’s ways. We must never forget it. It’s why we must stay connected, stay in the Word (daily). Peter confesses Jesus to the the Messiah. He answers the most important question you will ever be asked (Who Jesus is). Then shortly after being praised by Jesus, he gets told to get behind Him, because he’s acting like Satan. This is our human nature. No matter what anyone believes, we have this potential. Anytime we act without God in mind, saved or not, we will thwart the Gospel. It’s that simple. Salvation is a daily walk, that must be taken seriously, or we too will receive a rebuke like Peter did right after he was praised and called the “Rock”.

21 From then on Jesus began to tell His disciples plainly that it was necessary for Him to go to Jerusalem, and that He would suffer many terrible things at the hands of the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law. He would be killed, but on the third day He would be raised from the dead.22 But Peter took Him aside and began to reprimand Him for saying such things. “Heaven forbid, Lord,” he said. “This will never happen to You!”23 Jesus turned to Peter and said, “Get away from Me, Satan! You are a dangerous trap to Me. You are seeing things merely from a human point of view, not from God’s.” Matthew 16:21-23