“What should we do?” It is the question for
our lives and even if it is not on the same level as being cut to the heart for
crucifying the Lord and Messiah of God the answer we arrive at matters. It is
the question for relationships gone sour. It is the question for lives diminished
by loss and pain and sorrow and grief. It is a question that continues to be
asked and never finds an answer that fully satisfies.That those who hear Peter
ask it is significant. They were the keepers of the covenant and the people of
the plan and yet it was their piety that drove them to kill the promise because
he did not fit the pattern of what the law demanded. And so the rule breaker
was done away with and the only wrinkle in the plot was that he came back and
his foolish followers wouldn’t stop talking about him. So saving oneself from a
corrupt generation cannot be about adherence to the law, obeying the rules,
toeing the line, following the straight and narrow. It must be about whatever
Jesus did. Like forgiving those who put hammer to nail and fastened his hands
and feet to wood? What shall we do with that? It may be that despite Peter’s
concrete answer we all need to work out our salvation “with fear and trembling”
(Philippians 2:12) trusting that in Jesus “what should we do” is a moot
question.
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