There once was A man who never opened the car door for his wife or any other woman. He felt it was a sissy Emily Post kind of thing to do and “Besides,” he was fond of saying, “she doesn’t have two broken arms.” His table manners left much to be desired, and manners in general were looked upon by him as quite unnecessary. After many years of marriage, the wife died and her husband was heartbroken because he truly loved her. Somehow, as the pallbearers brought her casket out of the funeral service, the husband and his family reached the hearse ahead of them. The mortician was back a few feet and, since he knew the husband quite well, he called him by name and said, “Open the door for her, will you?” The man reached for the door handle and then, for one second, just froze. He realized he had never opened a car door for her in life; now in her death it would be the first, last, and only time. It was a moment for him when years of regrets came crushing down around him.

Exp- Regrets…. Over things done and undone, spoken and unspoken in our lives can eat away at our soul… Jesus wanted to show Peter Who He wanted to be in his life, to redeem him from the prison of regrets that Peter lived in… He had denied his Lord, three times, in front of many witnesses… He had done the one thing he swore he would never do… And although this would be the third time he had seen Jesus since His resurrection, we don’t have it recorded anywhere that they had ever talked about his betrayal… The guilt and pain, the regrets must have been overwhelming for Peter… and here he was, back at the same place he was when he first responded to the call of Jesus– You remember, the first passage we looked at today… Life must have loomed over him like a cloud…. but the faithfulness of God was sure…

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