Reverting again...

Matthew 16:21-23 From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!” Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.” Jesus has been working hard to do one main thing: keep the disciples' hearts and minds focused on things eternal. Their tendency and ours is always to revert to things physical. Most recently, when He talked about the leaven of the Pharisees, they fretted because they forgot to bring bread. Here Peter (probably again speaking for the rest...) does it again. He does not want to see Jesus suffer, while at the same time failing to see the ultimate victory. Today, may we revert back to the spiritual, seeing and hearing what Christ has to say and to show us.