{"id":1340,"date":"2026-04-13T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:19:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:19:51","slug":"no-shortcuts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/?p=1340","title":{"rendered":"No shortcuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the authenticity and sincerity of the scene in the &#8220;The Bible&#8221; mini-series when Jesus meets Peter. First, Jesus walks <em>in<\/em> water to the boat. Then Jesus reaches out his hand for Peter&#8217;s help to climb aboard.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1341\" style=\"width: 348px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TheBible_JesusMeetsPeter_Small.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1341\" class=\"wp-image-1341\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TheBible_JesusMeetsPeter_Small.png\" alt=\"The Bible: Jesus meets Peter\" width=\"338\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TheBible_JesusMeetsPeter_Small.png 541w, https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TheBible_JesusMeetsPeter_Small-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The Bible&#8221; mini-series: Jesus Meets Peter<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With so much said and sung about Jesus walking <em>on<\/em> water, what a great reminder of the fact that Jesus normally walked <em>in<\/em> water.++<\/p>\n<p>Jesus walked in water with every brief <span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">trip <\/span>to the shores of Lake Galilee, and with every lengthy trip to Jerusalem he walked through the water of the Jordan River.<\/p>\n<p>A trip to Jerusalem with holiday crowds would have been a great venue for walking on water or parting a river. I&#8217;m sure that the crowds would have appreciated the shortcut.<\/p>\n<p>Judging from the reaction of his family and the crowds, Jesus&#8217; experience at least when it came to traveling was fairly normal, like ours. No shortcuts.<\/p>\n<p>As we follow Jesus&#8217; experience, we will walk through a lot of water with him. In the long run, that may even be more significant for us.<\/p>\n<p>++ Jesus would have been awfully difficult to baptize if he didn&#8217;t sink occasionally. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the authenticity and sincerity of the scene in the &#8220;The Bible&#8221; mini-series when Jesus meets Peter. First, Jesus walks in water to the boat. Then Jesus reaches out his hand for Peter&#8217;s help to climb aboard. With so much said and sung about Jesus walking on water, what a great reminder of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experience-reconsidered","category-telling-the-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}