"He Isn't Running a Performance Review"

Here’s a question for you today.

When someone asks how you’re doing, what do you actually say? Most of us, without really thinking, reach for a list. Busy. Keeping on top of things. You know how it is. We measure ourselves by our output. By what we’ve managed. By what we haven’t dropped yet.

Peter knew that feeling. After three years of drawing swords and making bold promises and pushing to the front, he failed in the worst way possible - three cold denials by a courtyard fire. And then he quietly slipped back to his old life, his old boat, his old job, as if none of it had happened.

And Jesus came and found him on a beach. Breakfast already cooking.

He didn’t ask Peter what he’d done wrong. He didn’t ask what he planned to do differently. He asked one question: Do you love me?

Three times he asked it. Once for each denial.

Here’s the thing I keep coming back to: Jesus already knew the answer. He wasn’t running a performance review. He wasn’t checking whether Peter had earned his way back. He was doing something kinder and stranger than that - he was drawing the love that was already there out into the open, where it could breathe and be put to work.

Love first. Everything else flows from that.

That’s the reset. And it’s being offered to you today too.

Today’s devotional on John 21:15 unpacks this in about five minutes - including a tiny, practical step you can take before the day is over. I think it might be just what you need.

👉 Watch it here:

With you on the journey.

Rob

Read this week’s devotionals here - https://open.substack.com/pub/battledrilldevotional/p/have-you-ever-felt-like-youve-blown?r=643q6o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true