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"Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life." Peter uttered these words in full consciousness, inspired by the Holy Spirit that Jesus was the Messiah, the Son of the Living God.
This statement should be our own very statement during this season of Easter which is ongoing.
Lord, to whom shall we go? We can only go to the Risen Lord who defeated eternal death for us.
We need to cling to him only, for Jesus has the words that will give us eternal life. No one else can lead us into the great, super mysterious and majestic life awaiting us other than the Risen Christ.
It is the Holy Spirit who further strengthened Peter at the Pentecost to do the same unimaginable and supernatural things that they saw Jesus do before his death. The Spirit enabled the disciples to do astounding feats and miracles in the name of Jesus only. Not through their might but through the power of Jesus manifested in the Spirit of God.
When Peter healed a crippled man begging at the Temple Gate, he stood with authority before the Sanhedrin and exclaimed to the witnesses; "Christ the Nazarean whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead; in his name this man stands before you healed. He is the stone rejected by the builders which has become the cornerstone. There is no salvation through anyone else, nor is there any other name under heaven given to the human race by which we are to be saved." (Acts 4: 10-12).
Later at Lydda, he met a man named Aeneas, who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years. Peter tells him that Jesus Christ is healing him and commands him to get up and roll up his sleeping mat. The man gets healed instantly.
At Joppa, Peter raises a dead woman back to life. Tabitha a lady who always did good deeds and kind acts fell sick and died, she was washed and put in a room upstairs. But Peter kneels and prays over her intensely and Jesus listens to his prayer. When Peter tells the body to stand up, the lady opens her eyes, looks at peter and sits up. Jesus raises the woman back to life and gives her once again to all the saints and widows who were mourning her.
Jesus also opens the eyes of Peter to not only spread the gospel to the Jews but to the Gentiles as well.
Peter sees a vision in the sky, the heavens open and something like a large sheet let down by its four corners containing all kinds of four footed animals, reptiles of the earth and birds of the air. A voice tells him to get up, kill and eat the animals. However, Peter deems these unclean. A profanity!
But he realises that God is actually pointing out to him that all foods are clean or rather all belong to Jesus, the entire human race. He died for everyone, the Jews and Gentiles, and they too must hear the Gospel and come to Christ as all are saved by the cleansing power of the blood of Jesus.
Where once Peter had denied Jesus three times and yet Jesus looked at him with all the love in his eyes after his resurrection, not condemning any of the disciples who fled the scene at his crucifixion, in a similar manner, he looks at us too with eyes of love. He does not condemn us when we fall but he raises us up to feed his lambs and take on the work of the Gospel.
As Jesus himself proclaimed that the Christ must suffer and die and rise after three days and in his name the forgiveness of sins should be preached to all nations.
We should never let our hand slip from the Lord's hold on us. On his part, he will never ever leave our hand. If we have to go to anyone in life or in death, let it be to Jesus only. May he be our go to person and our come through in the fullness of the spirit, Lord and Master.
We can conclude with our own Easter proclamation of faith (John 6 :68-69); "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe, we are convinced that you are God's Holy One."
For Jesus himself said after he had risen; "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believed."
Maria Franco
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