Soul Snack 8/66 ... Poor Peter
Time is irreversible! Unspeakable shame, bitter weeping, unrestrained sadness could not recapture the moment. Peter was absolutely impotent to retrieve this sin. (Isn't that the nature of sin?)
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." And he went outside and wept bitterly. Luke 22:61-62
Who received the deepest wounding through these 'chance' exchanges of Peter? Peter (now desiring consolation) had pursued comfort, Jesus still pursues the cross.
Within hours Jesus would be torturously suspended in mid air. Within days he would be alive. Within 40 days Jesus would be lovingly and gently restoring Peter from this sin.(See John 21 ... Breakfast with Jesus-E)
Jesus' unchangeable desire is to restore me from sin, and not ruin me in sin.
Jesus hears my sin, sees my sin and is still with me when I sin. He does not flee from me because of my sin.
When in my sin I have abandoned Jesus, He has not abandoned me.