You are the Rock! How and why?
And so I tell you, Peter: You are the rock and on this rock foundation I will build my church, and not even death will ever be able to overcome it. Mathew 16:18.
Peter is the rock and on that foundation Jesus Christ will build his church. The church that HE talk about is none other than himself. He died at the Cross and rise up resting at the right hand of God in heaven. The HOLY SPIRIT is what HE promised and it is the same spirit that led Peter to declares “You are the Son of God the Messiah or the Christ.”
Like Abram a childless man transformed into Abraham “father of many.” Peter is but like a reed tossed and moved around by the winds and storms of life. The spirit of God and JESUS CHRIST the rejected stone led him to be firmly rooted and becomes the Rock on which his promised church is build.
So long as Peter’s eyes are on JESUS CHRIST nothing is impossible. Looking at Jesus, he walks in the water! With Jesus close by he slashed the right ear of Marchus, the High Priest servant at Gethsemane! In the name of Jesus, he heals and raised the dead! With the promised HOLY SPIRIT 3000 peoples comes into the presence of the Lord! Rough and tough and directionless reed like Peter becomes Peter the Rock standing firmly and strongly ever in Christ! Humbled and serving the Lord to death.
Away from JESUS CHRIST, he denied him thrice. Sinking to nothingness from a position of walking tall in the water! Back to fishing from his call of catching men for Christ! Reprimanded and rebuked by Paul his junior for not standing on faith but on circumcision and on issues pertaining to the Gentiles. Peter is the rock so long as Jesus Christ is in HIM. That’s what JESUS CHRIST is looking at in us.
Do not be misled into believing what the world tells or yells at you. Look to JESUS CHRIST and his living words in the Bible. Many a time we are confused into believing “My Church” into things other than JESUS CHRIST himself. Today, in the name of the Church: Roman Catholic, Protestant and the thousands that fragments from it, we fight, we ridicules one another forgetting JESUS CHRIST and his messages of LOVE and Forgiveness and overcoming the WORLD.
I and my Father are One! Believe in me and you will be ONE with God through me! We are on a journey to self realisation. JESUS CHRIST is the way, the Truth and the LIFE.
You are a life only in JESUS CHRIST not because you belong to the Roman Catholic, The Penticostal, The Baptist, The Methodist, etc. Coming closer home Kuki Christian Church, Kuki Baptist Church, Evangelical Christian Association, etc is not going to take us to Heaven. Being rooted to JESUS CHRIST alone is what will take us there.
Take JESUS CHRIST into your life. Be the Peter the Rock that no longer bent with the winds nor the Storms of life.
Your past life of sins, shames and failures are not what JESUS CHRIST is looking at you. HE sees you leading a blessed HOLY and Victorious LIFE in HIM.
Be my church or come live my LIFE is the call of JESUS CHRIST!