Write Thing at the Write Time

Sometimes, we are the ones who made the worst monsters we wish we've never known. The very snake that we lovingly raised to bite us. The very best friend that is now your worst enemy. Or the Judas, after years of friendship, betrays us with a kiss and valued your friendship cheaply like they were 30 pieces of coins. The Peter we raised up so closely just to deny us not just three times. The very hand we used to hold and lead are now the hands that sinks deep, knives of lies and deciet on our backs. That we created the very rebels like David did with Absalom, our very own children, who will rise up and chase us away. I realized that I created them. The very nightmares I cry about every night.  Anger rises up inside you. You want to express that rage. You want to break the face of the one who used to make you smile but now just makes you cry. But as you lift up your fist to give that first blow, you stop and slowly lower your fist down. As you look into their eyes- the monsters, ...

  John 18:17,25-27  The woman asked Peter, “You’re not one of that man’s disciples, are you?” “No,” he said, “I am not.” Peter’s Second and Third Denials Meanwhile, as Simon Peter was standing by the fire warming himself, they asked him again, “You’re not one of his disciples, are you?” He denied it, saying, “No, I am not.” But one of the household slaves of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, “Didn’t I see you out there in the olive grove with Jesus?” Again Peter denied it. And immediately a rooster crowed. After 3 years of being Jesus disciple and after all the miracles Peter denied Jesus. Why was it so easy? Because its easy. The world offers easy. And in moments of easness, its also easy to ask the question like what was asked to Peter: 'di ba disciple ka ni Jesus??' We could deny him aside with our lips. We could deny him with our actions (it speaks louder than our words). So to condemn Peter is not right. After all aren't...

No Turning Back Simon Peter replied, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words that give eternal life." John 6:68 We entered the haunted house with great anticipation. As we stepped into the gloomy, dark elevator, a foreboding voice boomed, "Theres no turning back!" Suddenly, our five-year-old cried out, "I want to turn back! I want to turn back!" He was petrified. Having no understanding of the fun to come, he panicked. All he knew was that he would rather be waiting in the tediously long line we had just left than trapped in that room with no way out. When facing the unknown, we may be tempted to retreat, quit, or refuse to move forward. We may be tempted to panic and doubt God's wisdom . The disciples had many of the same feelings when Jesus began to explain the depth of commitment required to follow him in John 6. Many simply dropped away. Jesus asked his closest friends if they, too, were going to leave. Peter made an amazing statement. Knowi...