When Christ looked at Peter to say; "get thee behind me Satan", He did not address Peter, He was addressing the devil that was influencing Peter.
Peter didn't realize he was being influenced and used by the devil, he just spoke what came to his mind, but Christ knew it was a devil who was using Peter.
This is what is happening in our relationships now in these end days. People are having ill feelings about others that are not based on facts, so they try to figure out what is wrong with someone to justify their feelings.
When we find this happening we must think rationally and with facts to keep the feelings in their proper place, that ignores them to reason Biblically.
If Peter had taken the time to think before he spoke He would have realized Christ is God and would know the right things to do, rather than suggesting to Christ what He should do.
Isaiah 1:18
18 “Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord:
though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red like crimson,
they shall become like wool.
God wants us to think about using facts rather than leaning into feelings that are often not factual even often the opposite of the truth.
1 Corinthians 2:15-16 "…15 The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment. 16“ For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ."
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