Unfortunately, Too Well-"Grounded"
Google Images Oh, Peter, is getting stuff the only thing you can think of? We don’t have all the conversation recorded for us so I am speculating as to what Jesus might really have been thinking when Peter said: “ We have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us? ” (Matthew 19:27). It wasn’t even the topic of conversation. The rich young man had just left, disappointed that Jesus had asked him to give up the one thing he wasn’t willing to part with. That incident had turned into a discussion about how difficult it was for rich people, dependent on their own resources, to get into heaven. The disciples wondered how it was possible for anyone to be saved and Jesus had told them that all things were possible for God. The subject was an eternal one. Peter might have been thinking eternally, but I suspect his mind was still on what Jesus had asked the young man to give up in order to follow the Lord. You’d almost think this was a “Judas” question since the treasurer...