Strangers to Sisters - Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary Library: Essays

Now we know how tempting it is for human nature to wax
eloquently upon some subject where the person in question
has enjoyed a special privilege. You are familiar with
preachers who go abroad every so often, in order that they
may have something to preach about – their experiences.
Now Peter was human. We might expect therefore that
when he mentions this unusual experience on the mount, he
would go into greater detail about what happened there. But
lo and behold, he has no more than mentioned it, when he
immediately forgets himself in remembrance of something
far more important, the everlasting Word….It was as
though he would say, “Forget Peter for the time being, and
get back to your Bibles.”
To Peter the Holy Scriptures had become an inexhaustible
storehouse of everlasting truth, from whence he could draw
all which was necessary during his earthy sojourn. There he
found the Law in all its crushing conviction, showing him
how desperately he was in need of a Redeemer if he were
not to perish in the midst of many heinous sins. But there
he would also find the Gospel, a comfort for every sorrow
and a balm for every wound, life itself in the very midst of
death. 81
81 Norman Madson, Morning Bells, 402-403.
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