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Updated: May 18, 2025
It will be good for us all if, like this apostle, our trials consolidate our characters, and out of the shifting, fluctuating, impetuous nature that was blown about like sand by every gust of emotion there be made, by the pressure of responsibility and trial, and experience of our own unreliableness, the 'Rock' of a stable character, steadfast and unmovable, with calm resolution and fixed faith, on which the Great Architect can build some portion of His great temple.
Peter's vanity was sifted out of him, his self-confidence was sifted out of him, his rash presumption was sifted out of him, his impulsive readiness to blurt out the first thought that came into his head was sifted out of him, and so his unreliableness and changeableness were largely sifted out of him, and he became what Christ said he had in him the makings of being 'Cephas, a rock, or, as the Apostle Paul, who was never unwilling to praise the others, said, a man 'who looked like a pillar. He 'strengthened his brethren, and to many generations the story of the Apostle who denied the Lord he loved has ministered comfort.
That again was a guarantee for the divine origin of the vision in the eyes of every Jew, though nowadays it is taken by anti- supernaturalists as a demonstration of its morbidness and unreliableness.
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