Good Habits: Care

[John 21:15-19]

  So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus *said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John,

do you love Me more than these?” He *said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love

You.” He *said to him, “Tend My lambs.”  16  He *said to him again a second

time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” He *said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that

I love You.” He *said to him, “Shepherd My sheep.”  17  He *said to him the third

time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to

him the third time, “Do you love Me?” And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things;

You know that I love You.” Jesus *said to him, “Tend My sheep.

18  Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were younger, you used to gird yourself and walk

wherever you wished; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and

someone else will gird you, and bring you where you do not wish to go.”  19  Now this He

said, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. And when He had spoken

this, He *said to him, “Follow Me!”