You Can Break the Rocks.

All the disciples pledged allegiance that they would stay with Jesus through out his tribulations, but Peter took it a level higher, assuring him that even if the remaining 11 denies him, he Peter will follow him both to prison and death against all odds.

Turns out that Talk is Cheap, for when they arrested Jesus, Peter followed from a very long distance apart, to avoid implicating himself, meanwhile the rest of the disciples fled.

Later when Peter came into the court and was interrogated in the presence of Jesus face to face, Peter cursed, swore and took an oath affirming that neither does he know Jesus nor had he at any time encountered him.

After the resurrection, when Jesus and Peter met face to face again, the first statement Jesus made was "Do you still love me?", he didn't talk about the denial?

Peter was expecting a sermon about his failure, but he got a love that made him later willingly die a martyr. This love compels obedience, and when it wins people, they stay locked in for life.

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The only single reason why the prodigal Son gathered the courage to go back home to his father was because he remembered too many things, and the summary of all he remembered was the Love of the Father.

If the father was wicked to him back then at home, if the father had an attitude of abandoning him everytime he made a mess back then, where on earth will he now find the courage to go back home after committing what he considers the unpardonable Sin.

It was Love that made him go back home 😭.

Some of us are like Martha, forcing ourselves by ourselves to live a righteous life and do too many things for God, when we haven't first developed the culture of first doing absolutely nothing but remaining at his feet like Mary and spending quality moments with him in deep communion and love.

When you turn your heart back to God, he will so lavish you with Love, so much so that even people who haven't tasted of that love will begin to envy you, just like the elder brother of the prodigal son. It's Love from A - Z.

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