Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, "God forbid it, Lord! This shall never happen to You."Today, we read this, or hear it in a sermon, and cluck our tongues as Peter's lack of faith. We say he was arrogant, or emotional, or we point to other times he failed. We say we would never have done that sort of thing.
However, we do that sort of thing all the time. Every time we tell someone who's sick that God will heal them, or warn a missionary not to go back to a dangerous location, we're doing the exact same thing. We, myself included, forget in most of our prayers to add at the end, as Christ did in the garden, "not my will, but Yours be done."
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