“Lord, what about him?” St. Peter, like all of us, tended to worry about the other guy instead of looking at himself. This question arises right after Jesus demands to hear Peter’s three-fold declaration of love and Peter hears the command to tend the sheep. Instead of focusing on what that means in his life he turns his attention outside himself. This tendency to finger point becomes a spiritual detriment when we start to blame the other person. “You make me so angry.” No one can make us angry. We let the actions of another person get us angry. Jesus rightly deflects Peter’s question about the other and says to him what he said to him (and hence to us) at the beginning, “Follow me.”
MAY192018
By Church Staff
