WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2022
TEXT: John
21:15-25
15.
When they has finished breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John,
do you love me more than these?”
Peter told him, “Yes, Lord,
you know that I love you.”
Jesus told him, “Feed my
lambs.”
16.
Then he asked him the second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?”
Peter told him, “Yes, Lord,
you know that I love you.”
Jesus told him, “Take care
of my sheep.”
17. He
asked him a third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?”
Peter was deeply hurt that
he had asked him a third time, “Do you love me?” So he told him, “Lord, you
know everything. You know that I love you!”
Jesus told him, “Feed my
sheep.
18.
“Truly, I tell you emphatically, when you were young, you would fasten your
belt and go wherever you like. But when you get old, you stretch out your
hands, and someone else will fasten your belt and take you where you don’t want
to go.”
19. Now
he said this to show by what kind of death he would glorify God.
After saying this, Jesus
told him, “Keep following me.”
20.
Peter turned around and noticed the disciple whom Jesus kept loving following
them. He was the one who had put his head on Jesus’ chest at the supper and had
asked, “Lord, who is the one who is going to betray you?”
21.
When Peter saw him, he said, “Lord, what about him?”
22.
Jesus told him, “If it’s my will for him to remain until I come back, how does
that concern you? You must keep following me!”
23. So
the rumor spread among the brothers that this disciple wasn’t going to die. Yet
Jesus didn’t say to Peter that he wasn’t going to die, but, “If it’s my will
for him to remain until I come back, how does that concern you?”
24.
This is the disciple who is testifying to these things and has written them
down. We know that his testimony is true.
25. Of
course, Jesus also did many other things, and I suppose that if every one of
them were written down, the world couldn’t contain the books that would be
written.
(International
Standard Version Holy Bible)
TOPIC: HIS
TESTIMONY IS TRUE
Usually it is a witness that
testifies to the truth spoken by a speaker. In today’s passage, Jesus took time
to prepare Peter to sit up in his responsibilities of fishing souls of men
instead of catching fish.
The encouragement touched
his dead as well. No wonder, history said Peter ended up dying like His master;
a crucified death but with his head down and legs up. Peter turned and was
concern of John in their dialogue but Jesus was particular about Peter.
Verses 24, 25 clearly states
that this John that witnessed the conservation between Jesus and Peter was the
one who wrote what he saw as a testimony. Eye witnesses further confirmed that
what John wrote was true. Believers, we are privileged to have the best partial
but all we need to know concerning an account of our faith in Christ.
QUESTION:
Looking at the testimony of the gospel, what should that inform you about your
faith in Christ?
PRAYER:
Father, thank you for revealing all that I need for my salvation. Give me a
believing heart in You all the time, Amen.
Remain
Blessed
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