I love the way Peter describes things.  He is talking about the gospel  in verses 10 through 12.  He says it was revealed to the prophets that Jesus was coming and that they wrote about it.  And then he says that he can now testify that what the prophets told us has come to pass.  The Messiah is come.

And here is the line I love that is so "Peter".  Peter 1:13  "Wherefore, gird up the loins of your mind…" This is a term of battle, to gird up your loins before you go to face the enemy in combat.  But Peter uses the term to describe the war we must fight with what we have in our minds.

You can't fight if you have an empty mind.  But when you read God's word, it sticks.  The Holy Spirit helps us recall what we need when we need it.  Even if you can't remember where it was, which book it was in, you can look it up in the concordance or on line.

Peter was a man with callused hands.  He had spent his life hauling fish nets full of fish up and into a boat.  His shoulder muscles must have been huge.  He would have been very very strong.  He was looked up to by his fellow fishing buddies.

Would Peter have followed a wimp?  Can you even imagine him leaving his nets to follow a man of less stature than himself?  Jesus said, "Come, follow me."  And Peter did.  For three years.  Our pictures of Jesus are fashioned after all of the early oils commissioned by the Catholic Church, many of which hang in the Louvre in Paris.  Hundreds upon hundreds of them.  The artist had no idea what Jesus looked like and probably fashioned their portraits on other portraits.  I don't know.  But I have walked down row upon row of these paintings and can't imagine Peter following any of the men portrayed in them.

More about this tomorrow.