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66彼得在下边院子里，来了大祭司的一个使女，67见彼得烤火，就看着他，说：“你素来也是同拿撒勒人耶稣一伙的。”68彼得却不承认，说：“我不知道，也不明白你说的是什么。”于是出来，到了前院，鸡就叫了。69那使女看见他，又对旁边站着的人说：“这也是他们一党的。”70彼得又不承认。过了不多的时候，旁边站着的人又对彼得说：“你真是他们一党的！因为你是加利利人。”71彼得就发咒起誓地说：“我不认得你们说的这个人。”72立时鸡叫了第二遍。彼得想起耶稣对他所说的话：“鸡叫两遍以先，你要三次不认我。”思想起来，就哭了。
你知道某些情景、声音或气味是如何让我们想起过去的吗?如果你闻到烤面包的味道，你可能会想到你妈妈在厨房的台子上和面。你听到学校的铃声可能会唤起你小时候学校的记忆。有时后一首歌也能唤起你的回忆，比如你从前遇到你的伴侣时一起跳舞的那首歌。
有一个声音一直回响在彼得的脑海里。那是公鸡在清晨打鸣的声音。公鸡在打鸣的时候，很少只叫一次。第一次叫只是在清清嗓子。第二次的声音比第一次声音更响亮、更清晰。公鸡鸣叫的声音对我们来说意义不大，因为我们很少有人是在农场长大的。即使是农民也不总是养公鸡。但是在古代城镇里，几乎每家每户都养鸡，都有一两只公鸡。彼得每天早上都会听到这个声音，这是一个呼唤他悔改的声音。
什么样的景象、声音和记忆会呼唤你为过去的罪悔改?可能是每次有人请你喝酒，你都不得不拒绝，因为那让你想起过去酗酒的经历。也可能是别人因为某个罪被公开的谴责，而你也正犯同样的罪，只不过你隐藏得很好没有别发现，你看到别人被公开谴责的情景，这呼唤你悔改。或者也可能是，你用十诫的内容向神祷告，每一条诫命都提醒你过去的罪。
耶稣通过鸡叫的声音给了彼得一个提醒，提醒彼得的罪，这个提醒将永远伴随着他。但是通过这个提醒，他更想让彼得记住，鸡叫的时候，耶稣看向他的关心的目光，想起耶稣的应许，“西门，我已经为你祈求，叫你不至于失了信心”。这鸡叫的声音提醒彼得，他有一位救主，这位救主的赦免比他犯的任何一个罪都更大。这是给我的提醒，也是给你的提醒。也许你可以把你的闹钟设定成像公鸡一样名叫，每天早上在提醒你罪得赦免的声音中醒来!
祷告:主耶稣啊，感谢你没有让我忘记我的罪，并让我谦卑和悔改。我只有一个祈求。让我永远不会忘记你的赦免在我心中发出的祝福的声音!阿们。
Mark 14:72: Immediately the rooster crowed the second time. Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows twice you will disown me three times.” And he broke down and wept. (NIV)
Do you know how certain sights or sounds or smells can remind us of things past? If you smell bread baking, you might picture your mother kneading the dough at the kitchen counter. The sound of a school bell might bring back kindergarten memories. Sometimes it is a song, like the song you danced to when you met your spouse.
There was a song that Peter could never get out of his head. It was the song of the rooster crowing in the early morning. When a rooster crows, he rarely crows once. The first crow is getting his throat cleared. The second one rings out louder and more clearly than the first. That sound doesn’t mean much to us, because few of us grew up on the farm. Even farmers don’t always raise roosters. In ancient cities almost every household had chickens and a rooster or two. Peter would hear that voice every morning, a clarion call to repentance.
What sights and sounds and memories call you to repentance for sins in your past? It may be every time a person offers you a drink, and you have to refuse because of the abuse in your past. Or it may be when someone else is called out for a sin you kept well hidden. Or perhaps it is just praying through the commandments that reminds you of your past transgressions.
It wasn’t an accident that Jesus gave Peter a reminder of his sin that would stick with him forever. He wanted Peter to remember that he had a Savior whose forgiveness is greater than any one of his sins. Or mine. Or yours. Maybe you could program your alarm clock to crow like a rooster and wake up every morning to the sound of forgiveness!
Prayer: Lord Jesus, thank you for not letting me forget my sins and for keeping me humble and repenting. I ask only this. Let me never forget the blessed sound of your forgiveness in my heart! Amen.