In today’s Gospel, Jesus asks His disciples, "Who do people say that
I am?" They respond to Him mentioning various prophets that represent
important aspects of His mission, but nothing really captures who He
really is. Instead of the kind of messiah the disciples thought Jesus was, Jesus tells them that He "must
suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the
scribes, and be killed, and rise after three days." This was something which
Peter found difficult to accept. In his mind, he thought that Jesus would be some champion who would save the Jews from unjust
authorities; not a suffering and
dying Jesus. For this, Peter was criticised harshly by Jesus, even
addressed as “Satan”, for he was “thinking not as God does, but as human
beings do.”
What about us? Some of us try to think of Jesus in good terms, but the reality is that Jesus came to save us from our sins, and
also to teach us how to live as God intended, not according to our own way or our expectations. Are we willing to
set aside our thoughts and expectations, and understand and do
what God expects of us?
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