Exodus 32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
As time progresses, and fallen nature begins to chomp at the bits, they often let loose, and they often party harder than persons who were brought up in a non-believing household. That is what you get when you promise God to do the right thing. It’s not your promise, it’s God’s promise to you that would keep you from falling. Therefore, much more emphasis should be placed on what God does than what we do. Back then, the Hebrews promised God that all that God said, they will do, and be obedient.
That is, until their fallen human nature let loose in the party, at the foot of mount Sinai. If you saw them that day, you wouldn’t believe they were the same folks you saw so reverent in church last week. Thus, the Bible makes a clear statement on any attempts to change, and heal ourselves from the stings of the serpent. Basically, in a nutshell, not happening on our own. The real you, and the real me mostly comes to the surface in spontaneous situations.
Not in those well scripted moments when we say, and do right things which we have read in the Bible. The real you is not the person who has carefully thought about what to say. It is the person that becomes manifest in words and actions that are mostly reflex. The real Peter was the person that surfaced on the spur of the moment, when things spiraled out of control suddenly. That is what Christ was warning Peter about, for satan was going for the jugular.
John 18:24 Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest. 25 And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. They said therefore unto him, Art not thou also one of his disciples? He denied it, and said, I am not.
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!