Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus. Acts 4:19
There is the boldness of what is man, that he can harm me-the free and easy confidence of one whose heart is fixed, rather than the Aesop’s unhappy Miller, his Son and his Donkey, who, vexed and ashamed, returned from market after his donkey tumbled off the bridge convinced that by attempting to please everybody, he had pleased no one, and lost his donkey besides.
And yet grace and humility marks old foot-in-his-mouth Peter- there is a gentleness that guides his conversation. Can it be that at last he understands what it means to “Feed my sheep”? His priorities reshuffled by Love and some of the cards drop underfoot, where they belong. There is only one thing worth being concerned about, and like Mary, he has discovered it, and it will not be taken away from him.
Oh that when I spoke, people would recognize that I had been with Jesus.
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