Never Beyond Forgiveness

“But go, tell His disciples—and Peter—that He is going before you into Galilee; there you will see Him, as He said to you.” (Mark 16:7 NKJV)

Our little five year old niece was playing the card game UNO with my wife, her sister, and their mother Saturday night. She was cheating and when they called her hand on it she got mad and quit. When they asked her to come back and play she said, “I’m not going to play unless you promise me you will not cheat me!”

I like the way the New King James Version translates this verse. Those two separator lines make it clear the angel emphasized that they were to tell Peter too! The last scene we see Peter in he is left crying because he had denied Jesus. Some translations say, “Tell His disciples and even Peter.” Another one says, “Tell His disciples, especially Peter.” Yet another says, “Tell His disciples, including Peter.” All are correct as the Greek rendering of the word is; and, also or even. If the angel had been Southern he may have said, “Go tell the guys, and even old Peter, that Jesus will meet ‘em all in Galilee.”

You and I were cheated out of eternal life by sin. God promised us that it would not happen again as He Himself paid the price of disobedience for us. We cheat sometimes against Him but I am so thankful that He shows us the same forgiveness that He did Peter! Think you have gone to far to be forgiven or to return to Christ? Then think about Peter and how God accepted him; He will do the same for you!