The Rooster Crowed

Then seizing him, they led him away and took him into the house of the high priest. Peter followed at a distance. And when some there had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together, Peter sat down with them. A servant girl saw him seated there in the firelight. She looked closely at him and said, “This man was with him.”

But he denied it. “Woman, I don’t know him,” he said.

A little later someone else saw him and said, “You also are one of them.”

“Man, I am not!” Peter replied.

About an hour later another asserted, “Certainly this fellow was with him, for he is a Galilean.”

Peter replied, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” Just as he was speaking, the rooster crowed. The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word the Lord had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows today, you will disown me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.

The men who were guarding Jesus began mocking and beating him. They blindfolded him and demanded, “Prophesy! Who hit you?” And they said many other insulting things to him.

Luke 22:54-65

It hurts to be the one bullied. People are stunned that others just let it happen. They are glad it is not them being bullied. Without cause Jesus was arrested, beaten and mocked. All of His disciples left Him. Peter denied Him three times.

Understand, Jesus knows the worst of things humans can do. He faced those things on the cross.

The voice of a courageous Christian is an echo of the voice of God.

Our Daily Bread – July 24, 2015