Give Peter some credit

"Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you!" (Matthew 26:35)

These are Peter's words after Jesus has just told him, "you will deny me three times".

Peter swears that there is no way this can happen because he says he would rather die than deny Jesus.

I think Peter gets a bad rap because of this portion of Scripture. There is a good side to it that we never notice. Sure it's horrible that Peter denied Jesus, I don't want to take that lightly. But Peter knew something that Christians now a days never talk about. And what is that?

It's this:
we should be willing to die before denying the name of Jesus. Or, we should be willing to die for Jesus!

So you see, Peter deserves a little credit for having the right attitude, "even if I must die with you, I will not deny you!" His goal was death before denial.

And later on after he repented and returned to Jesus, he went on to start the church and gave up his life for the name of Jesus!

As Christians we should have the same attitude that Peter did. We should be willing to say from the heart, "even if I must die with you, I will never deny you!"

Lord help us to live and die for you!
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