KEEPING DISTANCE
Luke 22:54-63

As an acclaimed believer in the Living Word of God, have you been reducing or increasing in keeping your distance to the living Word of God? Keeping your distance away from the Living Word of God will keep you away from standing in Him. Inability to stand in the Word will cause you to fall and deny Him. Peter saw and heard it all in his walk with the Lord Jesus Christ yet, he entered into a big stumble. Keeping distance from the Living Word of God is an indirect request of a believer’s life by the Satan. Luke 22:31, “And the Lord said, “Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat.” Jesus revealed the purpose and program of Satan for the life of Simon. Jesus gave Peter the details, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster shall not crow this day before you will deny three times that you know Me.” (Luke 22:34) Jesus warned Peter ahead of time but Peter could not avoid denying Jesus. Indeed and in truth Peter denied Jesus not once but three times just as the Lord revealed. Peter spent time with Jesus, he was a man that witnessed the miracles of Jesus and yet Peter denied Jesus. The warning and stumbling of Peter demonstrates that the race of life is only by grace. It will take only the grace of God to keep a believer from stumbling where stumbling is eminent. If a man like Peter could deny Jesus, what will happen to believers of today when challenges show up? Peter’s denial had a gradual process and it was not sudden. Luke 22:54, “Having arrested Him, they led Him and brought Him into the high priest’s house. But Peter followed at a distance.” Peter’s denial started at the point when he began to follow Jesus at distance. As a believer, are you experiencing any life challenges that are threatening and intimidating o your well being? It is not the time to keep distance but the time to take a stand by keeping closer to the Living Word of God. At every time or in every situation that you choose to follow the Living Word of God at distance, you have taken a deliberate step into a big fall in the race of life. Today, do not let your situation or your challenges dictate how or when you will spend time in the Living Word of God. If you will turn to the pages of the Scripture, then you will eliminate distance and be able to maintain your stand and not fall in the race of life. The Word of God is True and Amen. 
 
Prayer for today:Ask God to deliver you from every force that causes man to take a distance position in walking with Him.