The Psalmist Voice Reloaded: It's Time To Shift The Wheat

Please take note that during Peter’s day, wheat was sifted by beating or violently striking the wheat with a flail (a rather crude instrument) to remove the outer husk from the grain.  Peter could have and should have quickly acknowledged this warning from Jesus, instead of protesting.  But he didn’t believe it possible.  Wouldn’t it have been great if he could have responded to the warning in humility. Perhaps he could have avoided the huge failure, sorrow and the humiliation.  (But no, flesh can rarely see it’s own inadequacy or smell its own stench.) 

The threshing, the sifting, provided Peter with exposure, a diagnosis, of his own heart condition.  Now it was in full view – he had failed terribly.  He was not all that he thought he was or proclaimed himself to be.   His inflated opinion of himself was brought low.  Painful, yes.  But, a good thing.  Look what he became.

Now all of that brings me to the present.  I believe we are already in a season for a public SIFTING, exposure of sin in the camp, if we will not heed the warnings.  Whoever will not honestly and humbly repent will have a public fall.   This will occur among the congregation and leadership alike.