just as he was speaking, the rooster crowed. the Lord
Turned and looked straight at Peter. then Peter remember
The word the Lord had spoken to him: Before the rooster
Crows today you will disown me three times.' Andhe went
Outside and wept bitterly." luke 22:60-62
The eyes can give looks that love or looks that kill. When some you love holds your eyes with his, you're enraptured. But when that same person looks at you in deep disappointment, it cuts to the core.
Suppose right now your eyes met the Lord's. What would you see? compassion and tenderness, yes But suppose if, in a thoughtless moment of self-centered sin. You slapped the Lord? In that horrible instant, what would you read in His eyes?
This once actually happened. Peter angrily denied Jesus. At that instant caught Scripture says the Lord looked straight at peter. Perhaps Jesus caught Peter eye's throught a window, or as He was being led through the court. Whatever, this much is sure; their eyes, met.
It's impossible to say what was in the Lord 's eyes. I would like to think the look Jesus gave was not cutting or judgemental. I choose to believe that He gave was a look of hurt and disappointment, a sad yet tender expression in His eyes. And perhaps, for Peter, it was the look that both loved and killed.
Jesus always loves. That's why it's safr to say that the Lord was probably more concerned for Peter's pain and anguish than He was for His own plight. Like Peter, who wept bitterly, that fact alone should make us grieve all the more over our sins and offense.
At You look into my eye today, Jesus I hope You will see my love
And deep affection. May the ligth in my eye be a refflection of Your
Light in my life.
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