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== Friday, Nov 15: "Get behind me, Satan!" == | == Friday, Nov 15: "Get behind me, Satan!" == | ||
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From [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/16?23 Mt 16:23] (also in [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/mark/8:33 Mk 8:33]): <blockquote>''He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.”'' (Mt. 16:23)</blockquote>As at the arrest of Jesus in the Garden, Peter brashly tries to defend Jesus’ person. He just didn’t get it, didn't get the logic of God’s plan. (Perhaps had he not slept through Jesus’ prayer in the Garden, he would have better understood...) We’re worse than Peter though— God's plan has been fully revealed to us and we are still stuck “''thinking… as human beings do.''” | From [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/16?23 Mt 16:23] (also in [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/mark/8:33 Mk 8:33]): <blockquote>''He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.”'' (Mt. 16:23)</blockquote>As at the arrest of Jesus in the Garden, Peter brashly tries to defend Jesus’ person. He just didn’t get it, didn't get the logic of God’s plan. (Perhaps had he not slept through Jesus’ prayer in the Garden, he would have better understood...) We’re worse than Peter though— God's plan has been fully revealed to us and we are still stuck “''thinking… as human beings do.''” | ||
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Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its sheath, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. | Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its sheath, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. | ||
Do you think that I cannot call upon my Father and he will not provide me at this moment with more than twelve legions of angels? ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/26?52 Mt 26:52])</blockquote> | Do you think that I cannot call upon my Father and he will not provide me at this moment with more than twelve legions of angels? ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/26?52 Mt 26:52])</blockquote> | ||