Peter felt like he’d totally failed Jesus. He probably asked himself a question over and over again: now that Jesus is alive from the dead, why would He put up with a total failure like me?

So Peter wants to do Jesus a favour and quit.

n John 20 we are shown what happened after the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. With virtually every other person the biography ends there with the person’s death. You will be shown sometimes what’s happened after that person’s death, but that person who died is done.

But death is not the end of Jesus.

The Scriptures testify that Jesus is the Son of God. Especially they testify in His crucifixion. In this one account in John there are seven prophecies fulfilled. Some of these are two-part prophecies, fulfilled at different times, sometimes far apart.

For many people life is becoming darker and harder to bear. They can only imagine what is going to happen, and all that dystopian science fiction doesn’t help things. They can imagine the worst. But they’re not even close to how bad it’s going to be.

I want to share a number of things I learned in my regular meditation.

The fear of dying makes a person a slave to the control of another who promises life.

The fallacy to this is that we are going to die anyway. No one can keep us alive, but we can choose which way we die.