Hi, my name is Pete Cazaro, and I want to welcome you here today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader

podcast. And today you're going to hear a message that I've entitled, Later You Will Understand,

later you will understand. It's actually based on a verse when Jesus says to Peter,

you do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand. Say it again, you do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand. Say it again,

you do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand. Now, this is a study on Peter,

and the whole process of discipleship, when he ends up walking through was really what we all walk through.

I mean, Peter is a headstrong guy.

He's headstrong.

He's headstrong.

He's bossy.

The Apostle Peter likes to be in charge.

And when Jesus begins to wash his feet, he's like, Lord, you'll never wash my feet.

But as Jesus says to him, you do not realize now what I'm doing, but later you will understand. The message is called later you will understand because that is one of the core issues of being

a follower of Jesus and clearly being a leader.

You know, being a leader is knowing where to go, you know, what to do next, why it's important

and bringing the resources to bear to make that happen.

That's leadership.

And yet discipleship,

a core part of discipleship is, I don't know where you're going, Lord. I don't understand.

And Jesus says later you will understand. And so this message really is another angle at bringing

a core issue of what's part of the emotionally health discipleship course, a theology of actually

suffering, a theology of the dark night of the soul, a theology of walls and a theology of grief

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