Lent Day 26 | 40 to Life

Mark 8:31

Then he began an to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after there days rise again.

Mark says that after Jesus told his disciples what would happen to him, Peter argued with him: How can the be? Jesus’s proclamation fell on disbelieving ears. The disciples only heard the terrifying news: that Jesus would suffer and die. They missed he good news that he would rise again. Hindsight gives us an advantage over Peter. He faced what he thought would be a devastating future, but we know the whole story. Ours is a future of hope and the promise of external life. We live in the Good News!