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JESUS AND ANDREW AND PETER Anonymous
The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, “We have found the Messiah”…And brought him to Jesus” John 1:41-42 (NIV)
Andrew was a disciple of John the Baptist.
Andrew listened to John’s preaching about Christ, and knew Him when He came. He was so thoroughly convinced that Jesus was the Christ that he led his own brother Peter to be His follower.
Here is a feast of food for prayerful thought today. Do we listen to gospel preaching? Does our listening lead to a knowledge and a following of Christ? Do we live the truth we know? Does the zeal and certainty of our faith persuade others to come to the Savior? Do we win those of our own household?
Andrew thought of others. He first brought Peter to Jesus. Peter came to share with Andrew all the enriching intimate experiences of Christ–on the mountain top, in the Upper Room, in the garden of prayer.
Andrew could not have changed Peter from an ordinary fisherman into a leader among the apostles. But he did what he could–he brought his brother. Jesus transformed Peter the Galilean into the man of God.