Being Proven Wrong

69 Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. And a servant girl came up to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.” 70 But he denied it before them all, saying, “I do not know what you mean.”71 And when he went out to the entrance, another servant girl saw him, and she said to the bystanders, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.”72 And again he denied it with an oath: “I do not know the man.” 73 After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, “Certainly you too are one of them, for your accent betrays you.” 74 Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know the man.” And immediately the rooster crowed. 75 And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly.
Jesus had promised it. Peter had denied it.  Jesus was right. Peter had seen the whole chain of events unfold - the disturbances in the upper room, the letting down of Jesus in the garden, the betrayal, and now this: his own ultimate failure.  It's devastating, yet as John will show, faith-building.  Failure - even being proven wrong - reinforces the truth of the lessons we are taught by God. We need Him. He is always right; we are not.  Humbling, yes. Hard, yes. Essential? Only in a fallen world where we need to be drawn closer to Him.  Yes.