"From then on Jesus began to tell his disciples plainly that it was necessary for him to go to Jerusalem, and that he would suffer many terrible things at the hands of the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law. He would be killed, but on the third day he would be raised from the dead.
But Peter took him aside and began to reprimand him for saying such things. 'Heaven forbid, Lord,' he said. 'This will never happen to you!'
Jesus turned to Peter and said, 'Get away from me, Satan! You are a dangerous trap to me. You are seeing things merely from a human point of view, not from God's.'"
If we don't have God's perspective, we are operating not from some neutral human perspective but from Satan's. Peter did not want what Jesus was saying to be true. But desire had nothing to do with it. Reality is what it is, and if we oppose it, we're on the side of anti-reality—Satan—untruth. There is no neutral ground. God is true; he is Reality. If we're not with him, we're siding with Satan. Seek God's perspective in all things! It's the only reality there is
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