Peter, the apostle reluctant

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Peter, the apostle reluctant

"Peter answered and said, Truly, I understand that God does not regard people, but in every nation he that feareth him, and doeth righteousness, is pleasing to him." Acts 10: 34, 35

Every apostle he is, Peter remains a prisoner of his certainties. He is a Jew convicted of the privileges of his nation, chosen by God. Yes, redemption makes sense, without it no salvation. Yes, Jesus is the Messiah announced, the Son of God. But all this is reserved for his people. God will not open his salvation to all! Then God will compel Peter to take another step when he meets Cornelius. This Roman soldier, residing at Caesarea, is foreign to the Jewish nation. It represents the foreign power that subjects the Jews. He is a pious man and open to the truth. In a vision, an angel of God invites him to call Peter who is in Joppa. The next day, Peter, who is hungry, also has a vision: a voice asks him, against his Jewish conscience, to kill and eat unclean animals for food! The voice is heard three times: "What God has purified, do not consider him defiled" (Acts 10:15). What does this vision mean? While Pierre, perplexed, asks the question, the envoys of Corneille knock on his door and invite him to come to Caesarea. Everything becomes clear for him; He followed these envoys and, before Corneille and his friends, he recognized that salvation was offered to all, both Jews and non-Jews. Later, in Antioch, this great apostle renounces, however, to eat with the Christians of the nations. He returns to the rites of external separation so as not to lose the respect of his fellow Jews. Paul takes him back and speaks to him the language of truth (Galatians 2:12). Peter accepts rebuke and keeps his esteem for the apostle: he speaks of him as "our beloved brother Paul," recognizing "the wisdom that was given him" (2 Pet. 3:15). Peter learned to free himself from his ancestral certainties to submit to the Lord's thought. Even today, let us assure ourselves that our certainties are in accord with the truth of God.