Day 12 - Beauty in His Will

16 February 2012, Thursday

Gospel: Mk 8:27-33

Peter’s Profession of Faith

Jesus and his disciples left for the villages round Caesarea Philippi. On the way he put this question to his disciples, ‘Who do people say I am?’ And they told him. ‘John the Baptist,’ they said ‘others Elijah; others again, one of the prophets.’ ‘But you,’ he asked ‘who do you say I am?’ Peter spoke up and said to him, ‘You are the Christ’. And he gave them strict orders not to tell anyone about him.

And he began to teach them that the Son of Man was destined to suffer grievously, to be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and to be put to death, and after three days to rise again; and he said all this quite openly. Then, taking him aside, Peter started to remonstrate with him. But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said to him, ‘Get behind me, Satan! Because the way you think is not God’s way but man’s.’

Reflection

Peter loved Jesus and he disliked the thought of Him suffering and dying, which threatened the consolation and security of having Jesus always by his side. But if Peter had prevented Jesus from fulfilling the Father’s Will, there would not have been His resurrection and our redemption. There is always beauty in God’s Will, no matter how heavy the cross it requires us to first bear.

God’s Will is often difficult to accept because it usually calls us to deny our own desires. 

Will you trust in God’s infinite love for you so as to trust in His perfect plan for you?