The Concerns of God
Even when Peter chastised Jesus for saying that He was going to suffer and die, and did so out of a kind of innocence/ignorance, Jesus’ response was direct. Of course, Peter’s rebuke was based on what he perceived to be the cause that he was following. It was founded in his wishful thinking. Peter, as I’m sure we could say of most of the other disciples and the throngs of people that followed after Jesus, had his own agenda. He had his own idea of what a “messiah” needed to do. He had his own idea of what they needed to be saved from. He probably looked around himself as we do today and made a judgment call on what the solution…