{"id":6524,"date":"2015-04-15T00:05:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T07:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=6524"},"modified":"2015-04-14T16:08:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T23:08:59","slug":"told-you-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2015\/04\/15\/told-you-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Told You So"},"content":{"rendered":"

All this time, Peter was sitting out in the courtyard. One servant girl came up to him and said, \u201cYou were with Jesus the Galilean.\u201d<\/p>\n

In front of everybody there, he denied it. \u201cI don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n

As he moved over toward the gate, someone else said to the people there, \u201cThis man was with Jesus the Nazarene.\u201d<\/p>\n

Again he denied it, salting his denial with an oath: \u201cI swear, I never laid eyes on the man.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shortly after that, some bystanders approached Peter. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to be one of them. Your accent gives you away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then he got really nervous and swore. \u201cI don\u2019t know the man!\u201d<\/p>\n

Just then a rooster crowed. Peter remembered what Jesus had said: \u201cBefore the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.\u201d He went out and cried and cried and cried. (Matthew 26:69\u201375)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\tJesus warned Peter ahead of time what was going to happen. But the warning didn\u2019t stop Peter or alter his behavior in any way. <\/p>\n

\tWith Jesus\u2019 arrest, with the disciples scattered, Peter suffered the loss of everything he had believed in, everything that he had hoped would happen. During the whole night as he skirted about, his mind would likely have been filled with the disappointment over how things had turned out and over his own failure to act. Perhaps he wondered if there might not be something he could do to change the circumstances, to fix the problem. But with each choice he made, he merely solidified the outcome and fulfilled the very words that Jesus had told him, words that he didn\u2019t want to believe, that he couldn\u2019t believe were true\u2014until the moment the rooster crowed and all his hopes came to nothing.<\/p>\n

\tOver the course of our lives, we have doubtless received good advice that we ignored. And likewise, we have given good advice that we saw ignored. We have heard people tell us, \u201ctold you so\u201d and probably have said it ourselves, or perhaps on some occasions, resisted that temptation. . Peter learned and came out fine on the other side of his mistakes. His misery, his suffering, did not have to be what it was. The night could have gone a different way for him had he understood what Jesus had been trying to tell him. God won\u2019t abandon us just because we don\u2019t always understand or follow his good advice, though he might tell us, \u201ctold you so.\u201d<\/p>\n

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All this time, Peter was sitting out in the courtyard. One servant girl came up to him and said, \u201cYou were with Jesus the Galilean.\u201d In front of everybody there, he denied it. \u201cI don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about.\u201d … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[18,17,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6526,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524\/revisions\/6526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}