Jumping Jack & Preaching Pete

At their first meeting, Jesus gazed intently at Simon. He immediately tells him he's giving him a new name- Peter, which means "a rock." Jesus saw all that Simon would become. He would constantly stumble and mess up, but he would become "a rock" for the church. We see in Acts how Peter is transformed and speaks boldly in the name of Jesus Christ. He goes out and performs miracles in Jesus' name and not his own. This is the same man who denied Jesus three times at the rooster's crow. How is your walk with Jesus? It's a rocky journey, it takes time, but Jesus sees who we are going to become. Even though we stumble and mess up just like Peter, are we allowing Jesus to transform our hearts?

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. "

2 Corinthians 5:17-21