Reading Luke 22:54b "Peter followed at a distance."
Can you blame him, really?
Who doesn't want to avoid danger that could lead to arrest and even death?
He could have just gone home, right? I mean, at least he followed Jesus as Jesus was being hauled away for his so-called "trial". Would it not have been wiser, for the sake of the movement, to stay away, so that the leader of the disciples could carry on Jesus' work?
Ah, the beauty of rationalizing our decision to follow Jesus at a distance.
Can you imagine, as the rooster crowed, the piercing to the toenails look when Jesus eyes met Peter's frightened stare? "The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter." Crushing. No wonder he "went outside and wept bitterly."
So much of our lives, as followers of Jesus, are spent living in this Holy Thursday moment of fear, or shame, or guilt, that someone might see us so close to Jesus that we get labeled as one who is "with him."
Can you blame us, really?
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