For the first few months of our lives every one of us have experienced being stuck in our mother's womb. We don't remember but our mother's kept us safe, they kept us warm, and they also kept our stomachs full. We lived in ultimate comfort. The second we are born there's a complete change. Voices are muffled, there's light all around us, the doctors' cold hands are ripping on your head, and then you feel a cold breeze just before they place you on your mother's chest for warmth and food. Once we are born and start aging, we naturally seek comfort like we all first experienced in our mother's womb. Because we are lazy, we turn to the things of the world for this comfort because it is the easiest and fastest way to find safety and warmth. 

While growing in the world we won't ever feel anything like our mother's protection again. Growing in the world, we are left hungry, cold, lost, and damp. Like Peter, Satan sucks us in and we deny Jesus because of what the world portrays as just as comforting at our mother's womb. We watch TV, listen to mainstream music, go to a bar, fit in with the guys at work and take part in blasphemous conversations, or go home to an adulterous relationship. This is all part of the Prince of the Power of the Air's deception. It's pulled many people away from Christ and the church. Satan's wrecked countries, marriages, pulpits, and pews. He is not the answer to true everlasting comfort. 

Peter was one who fell for worldly comfort. In Mark 14: 37-38 rather than pray with Jesus and for Jesus, he found comfort in sleep. He was more focused on his own temporary comfort rather than being focused on Jesus. Again Peter fails to listen to Jesus when in Luke 22:54, he follows Jesus afar off. He keeps his distance from the Lord when he should've been doing as Jesus said and scattered in Matthew 26:31. Being a Christian, there is always danger when you keep Christ afar off. We want to keep Him close and let Him live in our hearts. Always there; always present. Peter tried making his own path and direction rather than taking the Lord's. Peter was literally a part of the crowd. It's more comfortable to be one with the world temporarily. 

Lastly, Peter denied the Son of God. Luke 22:56-60, Peter found comfort in the heat of the fire he sat next to in the cool of the night. He was trying to hide and fit in with the crowds who wanted to crucify Jesus.  While fitting in with the people, he also started acting like them. Mark 14:71 tells us, "he began to curse and to swear." Peter feared temporary discomfort instead of eternal comfort. Are we so much different? We all have something that we find temporary comfort in. The only guaranteed comfort is Christ. 

It took Peter denying Christ three times, and the Lord looking at him after the third to completely break down and humble himself. How many more times do we have to deny Him? Peter denied Jesus in prayer, in direction, and he denied Jesus as the King Himself. Jesus was quick to accept Peter's repentance, as he is all of His children who come to the foot of the cross.