Jayamsih! Welcome to today’s devotion.
Calm the rooster.
- Matthew 26:75 The crowing rooster represents the safety we have achieved without Jesus Christ as our life. Peter can be very grateful to Jesus Christ for the reason of the rooster’s noise. The prophetic last utterance of Jesus Christ speaks of the revelation according to the presence of Peter, which is to scourge his self-confidence.
- Peter, who walked in his own natural pattern of courage and self-reliance, soon realized that he could do all things through Christ alone. Any actions outside of God’s life will sooner or later produce a cockroach in his own heart. All things were checked by the omniscient authority of God to receive them through Christ. Everyone’s submission, everyone’s ministry, everyone’s integrity, trustworthiness, and devotion must be through Christ. God ordained it, or else, as He has already told us, the rooster will surely come.
What is Peter’s auspicious occasion? To be drawn closer. His life is to be discovered through circumstantial faith. Situational faith is the faith that I choose to exercise in any given situation. Thousands upon thousands of people never discover their experiential liberation. Rather than fainting in the fatigue of striving, or in an abstract experience, we fill the emptiness with constant rest. Our lives must be lived by faith that works out of love. Instead of trying to succeed in various ways, only to hear the rooster crow, embrace him with faith in the test ahead and let us silence the rooster.
Today’s Reading Passage Arrangements 1–3