Peter accomplished one of the most epic fails ever. Three times Peter vehemently denied he knew Jesus. As he spat the third, a rooster crowed, and Peter looked up to see Jesus staring directly into his eyes. Stunned by his failure, Peter wept bitter tears.

We know the rest of the story, how the risen Jesus restored Peter, and how Peter spent the rest of his life spreading the faith, until crucified himself in Rome.

Peter’s failure points to God’s way in our lives. I fail all the time. Thankfully, I don’t look up after every failure to see Jesus staring at me. Otherwise, I’d be seeing Jesus a lot.

Here’s something really interesting to me – Jesus meets me in the midst of my epic fails, and it’s the place where I pay the most attention to his words.

The Bible describes mankind’s epic failure to live up to God’s standard – and – the Bible carries within it the good news of Jesus’s life, death and resurrection.

I can rest knowing Jesus covered my most epic fail.

Luke 22 in week fifteen of reading the Bible cover to cover

Photo by Warren Wong