A Jesus Encounter

Too often, when we come to know Christ, we delegate Him to just a certain aspect of our life.  He becomes the center of our “religious or spiritual” life.  We fail to involve or incorporate Him into other aspects of our life.  God is interested in every aspect of our lives.   He cares about your family life, your work life; who you date and marry.  He cares about your heartache and hardships too, and desires not only to be with you through them, but to grow you through the process of healing to be more like Him.  Yet too often, we seem to think that God is about that one area of our life.  God doesn’t really know about factory work, or politics, or nursing, or administration.  It’s as if we say, “God you’re good at what you do, but this is what I do.”  Peter had a conversation very much like that with the Lord.  Today we’re going to learn from that event as well as the subsequent events in their relationship together.  Peter makes an interesting study because in so many ways, I see myself in him.

Verse of the Week:  For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.     _{Hebrews 4:15}