Thursday Reading: John 21:15-17
Key Verse: John 21:17
17 He said to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me? Peter was grieved because He said to him a third time, Do you love Me? And he said to Him, Lord, You know all things, You know that I love You. Jesus said to him, Feed My sheep.
Devotion:
It never ceases to amaze me what God can reveal to us when we read His Word, all it takes is for a different day or hour and He will show us something else in the verses that we have read. When we read His Word we start to remember it and we can then bring it to mind and quote it without having to look it up – or at least some people can. But when we go back and read it after reading some other verses we can see those same words in a new light. We like to take God’s Word and apply it to the circumstances that we are currently in and in doing so we often miss some of the meaning of some of the words. I have never thought of looking at these verses and taking them from Simon Peter’s side instead of from Christ’s point of view, so today we look at it from Simon Peter’s view.
The first time that Jesus asked him “do you love Me more than these?” Simon Peter answered with what I like to think of as a double affirmative. He said yes, affirming that he did love Jesus but backed it up by saying that Jesus knew that he did. The second time was like the first but the third time Simon Peter expanded on the words a bit by saying “You know all things”. That was not just a casual reference to the fact that because they had been together for a few years that Jesus should have known how Simon Peter felt about Him. This was Simon Peter telling Christ that He was Christ. How could anyone “know all things” unless they were God?
We look up to people who have spent their years studying various things because they have taken the time out from their lives to pack as much information as they can into their brains. I am yet to meet any human who is able to answer all my questions. I have met many who have come up with answers for questions I would never have thought of, but true omniscience belongs to Christ, who is God.
Points to Ponder:
How much do you learn each day?
Have you ever thought how much God must actually know?
Key Verse: John 21:17
17 He said to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me? Peter was grieved because He said to him a third time, Do you love Me? And he said to Him, Lord, You know all things, You know that I love You. Jesus said to him, Feed My sheep.
Devotion:
It never ceases to amaze me what God can reveal to us when we read His Word, all it takes is for a different day or hour and He will show us something else in the verses that we have read. When we read His Word we start to remember it and we can then bring it to mind and quote it without having to look it up – or at least some people can. But when we go back and read it after reading some other verses we can see those same words in a new light. We like to take God’s Word and apply it to the circumstances that we are currently in and in doing so we often miss some of the meaning of some of the words. I have never thought of looking at these verses and taking them from Simon Peter’s side instead of from Christ’s point of view, so today we look at it from Simon Peter’s view.
The first time that Jesus asked him “do you love Me more than these?” Simon Peter answered with what I like to think of as a double affirmative. He said yes, affirming that he did love Jesus but backed it up by saying that Jesus knew that he did. The second time was like the first but the third time Simon Peter expanded on the words a bit by saying “You know all things”. That was not just a casual reference to the fact that because they had been together for a few years that Jesus should have known how Simon Peter felt about Him. This was Simon Peter telling Christ that He was Christ. How could anyone “know all things” unless they were God?
We look up to people who have spent their years studying various things because they have taken the time out from their lives to pack as much information as they can into their brains. I am yet to meet any human who is able to answer all my questions. I have met many who have come up with answers for questions I would never have thought of, but true omniscience belongs to Christ, who is God.
Points to Ponder:
How much do you learn each day?
Have you ever thought how much God must actually know?