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----- Original Message ----- From: "Gwen Tweedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 12:16 PM Subject: {dbilg} Fw: Mens Email Devotional - Sunday October 05, 2008 > > ((prayers, hugs, and love)) > Gwen > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "TruthMedia Mens Devotional" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Gwen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 6:40 AM > Subject: Mens Email Devotional - Sunday October 05, 2008 > > > : > : > : SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT > : > : > : By John Grant > : > : Listen to this devotional read aloud online: > http://thelife.com/blogs/experience/kindle/2008/10/05/something-to-crow-about/ > : > : ** Online & interactive: A new way to do Bible studies! Try them today: > http://mag.thelife.com/study > : > : Peter replied, "Man, I don't know what you're talking about!" Just as he > was speaking, the rooster crowed. The Lord turned and looked straight at > Peter. Then Peter remembered the word the Lord had spoken to him: "Before > the rooster crows today, you will disown me three times." And he went > outside and wept bitterly. Luke 22:60-62 > : > : My curiosity got the better of me as I rode the back country roads in > Germany through small towns and villages. Why was there a rooster rather > than a cross adorning the steeples? Getting an answer that was more than a > guess initially proved to be difficult, but finally someone explained it > to me. > : > : Peter asked, "Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life > for you." Then Jesus answered, "Will you really lay down your life for me? > I tell you the truth, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three > times" Later, Peter was standing by the fire warming himself, nervously, > watching the Roman soldiers who stood nearby. > : > : Then a voice said, "Weren't you with Jesus of Nazareth." Peter said, "I > don't know what you're talking about" and hurried off toward the porch. > As he strolled toward the porch the rooster crowed. After awhile the same > little maid saw him again and said to the soldiers nearby, "This is one of > them." Again Peter strongly denied the claim of the maiden. Then, after > awhile the soldiers approached him and said that he was surely a follower > of Jesus because his speech proved him to be. > : > : This time Peter cursed and said, "I know not this man of whom you > speak." At that moment a rooster in the yard crowed again! The sound of > the rooster came shrill and loud, leaving a shudder running down Peter's > back. Then Peter called to mind the words of Jesus which stated clearly > that he would deny Jesus three times before the cock would crow the second > time. Peter couldn't put this out of mind. The more he thought on the > words of the Lord the more disappointed in himself he became until the big > fisherman had to hold his face in hand and break into sobbing. > : > : How the Lord must have loved Peter, looking beyond his cursing and > denials, giving Peter a sign of repentance when He would be taken away > from him and unable to forgive him personally. The shrill sound of the > rooster's call worked upon the conscience of Peter as much as the Savior's > voice would have. The call of the rooster had become an extension of the > voice of the forgiving Christ. > : > : For this reason, the rooster has become a symbol of an aroused > conscience and a reminder of a forgiving God. Peter was a symbol of > personal failure who asked Jesus for forgiveness and through redemption > rose to greatness. The rooster is a reminder that we live in a fallen > world and the humanity in each of us fails God, but God can forgive, > redeem and renew. The greatest impediment for living a glorious future for > most people is a guilt ridden re-living of our past, but through Christ > the past can be washed away and all things can become new. > : > : Don't let your past deprive you of God's plan for your future. Listen to > the roosters in your life. Think of the great Apostle Peter and what his > life might have been without the proud strutting rooster who spoke for > Jesus in His absence. > : > : Permanent devotional link: > http://thelife.com/experience/devotionalformen/something-to-crow-about/ > : > : Question: When are you most tempted to sin by denying knowing the Lord, > and why? > : > : About this author: > http://thelife.com/experience/devotionalformen/authors/john_grant/ > : > : > : Comment on the devotional blog. Interact with others who are reading > today's devotional. 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