Because of these verses poor Peter has been the example of lacking faith. However, before he began to sink, he was exhibiting some awesome faith, I know I’ve never walked on water!
Skipping ahead to Acts 3:1-10 we find Peter and John going to the temple. This is after Pentecost where, in Jesus’s words, they received “power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.” Peter and John came upon a man who had been crippled since birth. The man could not walk. Peter looked at the lame man and told him “I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!” Wow! Peter didn’t say I will pray that the Lord will heal you and maybe He will. He said a powerful word of faith with a sure faith that God was going to perform a miraculous healing. He said “rise up and walk!” This was likely done in front of many people at the busy temple. If the man didn’t rise and walk, they would have ridiculed him. But Peter, in a sure faith, yielding to the unction of the Holy Spirit, was telling that man to get up and walk because God was healing him!
This Peter whose faith wavered in the dangerous sea, spoke with unwavering faith and the Lord healed the lame man. If Peter had had that same faith when on the sea, he would not have sank. Praise God that He had received “power” from the Holy Spirit and now had the faith Jesus had taught them and desired for them to walk in.
That gives us hope! 1 Corinthians 6:11 states that the Jesus and the Holy Spirit are doing the work of bringing us along to walk closer with God. They are remaking us to be more like Himself. Just as Peter in Acts 3 was not the same being as he was in Matthew 14, so the Lord is remaking us to be more like Him. One day we will be with the Lord, and the reworking of us will be complete. Be confident and be sure that our God will complete the work in us that He began (Philippians 1:6). This is another sure thing from God. Our hope is not in the things of this world, but in the things that are of the Spirit. We hope in the eternal things of God and no-one can take those things from us (Matthew 6:19-21). Rejoice Family, our redemption is now, and also it proceeds, and it is sure! Oh praise God for His power, love and faithfulness! Praise God!
Psalm 150:6 – Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!
Micah 7:7 – But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.
Micah 6:8 – He has shown You, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.