Bad Advice

He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. "Get behind me, Satan!" he said. "You do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men."

Mark 8:31-33

Be careful who you look to for advice in this fallen world because if the one giving the advice is not tuned in to the Spirit of God in their mind who is the giver of all wisdom, then indeed they will give you advice like the advice that Peter gave here to Jesus. Peter, may have been more concerned here with his own situation as a result of not understanding all the things that needed to play out in order for God’s Kingdom to begin to be built. Here is a man that left everything he had – his family, his job, his friends – he surrendered his entire life in order to follow Jesus and now Jesus is telling him that He is going to be rejected and killed, gone for good. What Peter didn’t know is that Jesus was going to come back in Spirit in order that He could be a much deeper part of Peter’s life as His Spirit would then be living inside of Peter and giving him wisdom and strength and power and encouragement as he would live on to testify about Jesus Christ and eventually be martyred himself. Don’t be blinded today by temporal things of this world that have nothing to do with the big picture of what God is doing in and through your life here on earth. Don’t take the advice of someone who is only looking out for worldly or fleshly matters of the present but look to one who is tuned in to God’s Spirit and has an understanding of the wisdom of God as a result of the one who lives inside. Seek out a Godly mentor today to help guide and direct you in your journey of knowing and loving God more.

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