The Folly of Rebuking the Matchless Christ

It is folly to rebuke the Matchless Christ. We see Peter do it in Matthew 16:21-23. So easy to indict him but we let ourselves skate. We excuse a lot of sin in ourselves that we can easily see in others. Rom. 2 says we are without excuse.

"But how do I do that?" both the humble and hard hearted ask. Whenever we take the reigns and dictate the destination. It's like flying on an airplane and high jacking the plane. It's treating God like a taxi driver. It's making Him serve you. As if we could. Such arrogance. I want to repent of all such foolishness. It's like some inward switch gets flipped and we go from being rational Jesus worshippers to raving self-willed maniacs. Like the 1950 Disney cartoon "Motor Mania", a six-minute exposé of Goofy as a Jeckyl and Hyde character, a mild-mannered citizen who becomes a absolute lunatic once he gets behind the wheel.

We most often rebuke God in the privacy of our own hearts, hidden to our neighbors but open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with Whom we have to reckon. His reckoning counts. We answer to Him. So when we go independent, even in the Name of Christ, we are saying no to God. We are saying our knowledge exceeds His. News flash: you don't know more than He does. He understands our hearts. He is greater than our hearts and knows all things. And He, unlike us, deals mercifully with us. He could take Peter's rebuke and firmly, lovingly and decisively deal with him as He corrected and redirected him. Jesus truly is our only hope.