You and your wife have another golden opportunity to suffer for Christ’s sake. If you do this complainingly you will have no reward; if willingly, gladly, having the same spirit which Peter possessed after his apostasy, you will be victors. He felt a sense of his cowardly denial of Christ throughout his lifetime; and when called to suffer martyrdom for his faith, this humiliating fact was ever before him, and he begged that he might not be crucified in the exact manner in which his Lord suffered, fearing that it would be too great an honor after his apostasy. His request was that he might be crucified with his head downward. What a sense did Peter have of his sin in denying his Lord! What a conversion he experienced! His life ever after was a life of repentance and humiliation. {4T 342.1}

Du og din hustru har en anden gylden anledning til at lide for Kristi skyld. Det I gør, denne jamren, vil I ikke få løn for; Hvis I er villige, glade, har den samme ånd som Peter havde efter sit frafald, vil I blive til sejrherrer. Han mærkede sin feje fornægtelse af Kristus resten af sit liv; og da han skulle til at lide sin martyrdom for sin tro, var denne ydmygende kendsgerning altid for ham og han anmodede om at han ikke måtte blive korsfæstet på præcis samme måde som hans Herre led, i frygt for at det ville være for stor en ære efter sit frafald. Denne anmodning var om han måtte blive korsfæstet med hovedet nedad. Hvilken fornemmelse havde Peter dog ikke for sin synd, at fornægte sin Herre! Hvilken omvendelse har ikke erfaret! Hans liv derefter var i liv i anger og ydmyghed.