- Peter the Rooster
Alan has always wanted a rooster named Peter. This Peter is really Peter the second, the first lost a dueling match with a mean Barred Rock!
Here’s why: Every day that we see Peter the rooster we’re reminded of Peter the Apostle. Peter, being as close to Jesus as he was, still denied knowing him when he got in the ‘thick of things’. How many times have we denied Christ?
[54] Then seizing him, they led him away and took him into the house of the high priest. Peter followed at a distance. [55] But when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together, Peter sat down with them. [56] A servant girl saw him seated there in the firelight. She looked closely at him and said, “This man was with him.”
[57] But he denied it. “Woman, I don’t know him,” he said.
[58] A little later someone else saw him and said, “You also are one of them.”
“Man, I am not!” Peter replied.
[59] About an hour later another asserted, “Certainly this fellow was with him, for he is a Gallilean.”
[60] Peter replied, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” Just as he was speaking, the rooster crowed. [61] 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.” [62] And he went outside and wept bitterly.
Here is a part of M. Henry’s commentary to contemplate: ”Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall; and let him that has fallen think of these things, and of his own offences, and return to the Lord with weeping and supplication, seeking forgiveness, and to be raised up by the Holy Spirit.”
