THE LOOK

From teachers, parents, and spouses we've gotten "the Look". It invariably means You're busted, You're caught, You've really, really disappointed me.

It's so much more than the look from the eyes on a butterfly's wing. It bores deep into your soul.

THE LOOK of all time had to have occurred just outside Caiaphas' house in Jerusalem. Jesus had told Peter he would deny Him three times. Peter objected. He truly loved His Lord. Yet after he cut off Malchus' right ear when they came to arrest Jesus in the Garden at Getsemene (John 18: 10) he did just that. And after the third denial, the rooster crowed as Jesus had told him.

On his way to Caiaphas' house for the second trial, Jesus had His hands bound behind Him. And He looked directly at Peter. (Luke 22:61-62). It completed Peter's total humiliation.

I never want my Lord to look at me that way. Oh, I know I disappoint Him daily, but He's also a forgiving Lord. And if Peter repented and asked forgiveness, scripture tells us he was forgiven. But I imagine he never forgot THE LOOK.