“Who do You Say that I
Am?”
When
Peter, in the names of the disciples, identified Jesus as the Christ, “he
warned them not to tell anyone about him.”
Yet, Jesus
“spoke openly” about his suffering, rejection, death, and resurrection.
Jesus is
not hiding his identity. Nor is he
afraid of people knowing about him.
What
important is the correct understanding of who Jesus is, the Jesus who accepts
the cross and crucifixion out of love. Peter
and the disciples either do not have or are not ready for this understanding.
Maybe it’s
time to evaluate my own understanding of who Jesus is. I need to ask Jesus for the wisdom to know
him as he truly is, and not my misconceptions or my own projections about
him.
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