Random Thoughts
I just thought about Peter, the Apostle Peter. How did he feel when his best friend was given a humiliating death; beaten in public, made a laughing stock as he was taken round the city, killed outside the city gates signifying that he was unworthy of the city, not just an ordinary death but a grueling criminal kind of torture and subsequently, death- on a cross, hung between two thieves. How did Peter feel? Known in town as the friend of a criminal; worse still, to the religious ones, Peter was seen as the friend of a false prophet, a blasphemer who claimed to be the Son of God. After all those healings and miracles, his friend could not save himself. He must have looked and hoped and watched and waited, but his friend still hung helplessly on the cross. Yes, this friend had told him something of this sort will happen. He had also told him that he (Peter) would deny him. And true to those words, he had denied his friend in the heat of the moment. He didn't know it...