Sifted Like Wheat

By Dan Robinson

A cock crows as eyes lock and Peter remembers. Empty words, so many well intended promises and fixed convictions vaporize as one fisherman's noble vow sours in bitter tears. "Lord, I'm willing to go to prison and even to death with You." Jesus nods. He sees, He knows. His impact on this simple Galilean was as real as it was secure, but the work was by no means finished. How could this now crippled son of Jonah have possibly wrapped his brain around participation in Jesus's passion, that he had to be sifted like wheat?

How about us? Our identification as believers with One who loved and gave Himself is more than a nod with grateful approval, a "thank you Jesus for what You've done." We too participate. Literally. Actually. Necessarily. Sifting takes a believer's personal know how and determination to the threshing floor where they are crushed and dismantled, crucified with Christ. See it as the place where even your best efforts and my highest aspirations are exposed for what they are, filthy rags! At the cross and nowhere else can we find genuine rest and consummate relief by way of brokenness that leads to surrender-life and that more abundantly.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
• Release date: Apr 26, 2021
• ISBN: 9781644688588

Dan Robinson

Dan Robinson is a ‘Cold War’ veteran having served in the armed forces of the United States, gathering information on the then Soviet Union, currently attempting a comeback. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Dearborn campus, Dan worked for the General Motors principal advertising agency in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, then on to the NBC research department in New York City, on to KCBS radio in San Francisco, then to CBS Viacom Enterprises in New York City where he rose to become the Director of Research. Thereafter, he formed a television syndication company, Dan Robinson broadcasting-shotmakres.org, distributing In Search Of…with Leonard Nimoy for the Bristol-Myers company, doing cables sales for the New York Islanders hockey team, employing Wescam aerial photography of Atlanta (Atlanta Aerials) and New York City; and finally as a licensed real estate agent since the 1980s in the states of New York and New Jersey. Backchannel: rabt is the third in a trilogy of books; Suffer the Children the first and then Nuevo Laredo: A Prelude to War, continuing with the same characters in different situations.