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== Friday, Nov 15: "Get behind me, Satan!" == | == Friday, Nov 15: "Get behind me, Satan!" == | ||
Jesus tells Peter ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/16?23 Mt 16:23] and [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/mark/8:33 Mk 8:33]), <blockquote>''"Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.”''</blockquote> | |||
I love this line from Scripture -- and it's rather useful at times, such as when Terry wants something from me she knows I don't want to do. "Get behind me, Satan!" and the matter is solved. | |||
Peter kinda missed that "and... on the third day be raised," business. Naturally, he was shocked that Jesus said he would be betrayed and killed, the purpose of which the Peter and the disciples failed to understand. The rebuke, then, is plainly that Paul was thinking this life not the next, thinking like a human and not like God. | We don't know how Peter reacted to it. We do know that whatever he made of it, he didn't figure it out. Not long after, at the arrest of Jesus in the Garden, Peter again brashly tries to defend Jesus, this time not with braggadocio but true bravery, wielding a sword. He truly didn’t get it, didn't get the logic of God’s plan. (And had he not slept through Jesus’ prayer in the Garden, perhaps he would have finally understood). | ||
Nearing the time of the Passover festival, Jesus had prepared the disciples for his coming Passion: <blockquote>From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer greatly from the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised. </blockquote>to which Peter objects: <blockquote>Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, “God forbid, Lord! No such thing shall ever happen to you.” ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/16?21 Mt 16:21])</blockquote>Peter kinda missed that "and... on the third day be raised," business. Naturally, he was shocked that Jesus said he would be betrayed and killed, the purpose of which the Peter and the disciples failed to understand. The rebuke, then, is plainly that Paul was thinking this life not the next, thinking like a human and not like God. | |||
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.''” | 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.''” | ||