Failure

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A servant approached him and she said, "you were with Jesus the Galilean too." But he denied it in front of everyone: "I don't know what you are talking about!"........again he denied it with an oath, "I don't know that man!" ....Then he started to curse and to swear with an oath, "I don't know the man!" Immediately a rooster crowed, and Peter remembered the words Jesus had spoken and he went out and wept bitterly. Matthew 26:69-75

Peter was about to receive insight about himself. When he was cornered he lied, blasphemed, did anything to get out of the corner. He would have done that all his life from childhood, it was automatic.

I know people, who when cornered, they become a nasty fighting machine, a beast. Myself, I go to water and have to find courage.

Jesus knew Peter and told him what he would do, Peter denied it, protesting loudly of his dedication yet saw he was just the opposite, however, Jesus did not reject him.

Whatever your trained response, Christ loves you, but as he  retrained Peter He will train you to respond out of a different place than you have done.

Peter, eventually learned to stand and not run. He went on to become a great leader. He chose to return. What will you do?

We can believe the lies in our head or the word of God. it says 'if you repent He is faithful and just to forgive you of all unrighteousness.'

This is the truth to live by, not our feelings.

Jesus alone is the answer.