Hey my friends it's Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and there are a few things that happen to me from time to time in sports where I just get fixated on the thing I'm not going to do and then I exactly do it.

Like when I was learning out of snowboard and still I suppose kind of when I go snowboarding.

Somebody's telling me like hey if you don't want to hit trees just don't look at the

tree because whatever you look at that is where you're going to go.

So if you're like oh don't hit that tree don't hit that tree, don't hit that tree, that one right there, that one, right there that's

coming up on me with the poinky branches that's that don't, that's the one not to hit, you're going to hit it.

You guys just stop looking at the tree and your body and your shoulders are kind of going a different

direction and it'll just work out. It's proven to be a really good rule. If I don't look at the tree, I go to good places. If I do look at the tree, I go to bad places. Sometimes also in sports there's just time to think about things.

Maybe you've got a little bit of a breakaway, you're playing basketball or

something up at the gym, some guys, you know, I'm usually pretty good about finishing at the rim, like even in traffic,

not that big a deal. I like a little bit of contact, but you get me out there alone and give me a second to think about it,

and your brain doesn't just go to, you know, just relax and just do what you've done a gazillion times and just

roll this off the backboard and in and just get on with it.

Everybody expects you to make it.

It's a foregone conclusion.

No, your brain sometimes starts going, it would be really embarrassing to miss this, don't miss this, do not miss this one, do not just chunk it up there and give it too much.

And then you just do it. You do exactly the thing that you were insisting that you should not do, then that you were fixated on not doing.

I feel like that is exactly what we are getting from Peter here in Matthew 26, who frankly

has just never taken very well to the idea that Jesus actually is the

son of God something Peter rightly identified in Matthew 16 and that Jesus therefore might

know what he's doing and that Jesus plan might include him dying and coming back to life.

Peter just he struggled with that concept and I get it. The same thing that makes Peter awesome and a great dude and the kind of person you want to be around is also the thing that makes him weird and screwy and occasionally frustrating.

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