Wednesday devotion: "Jesus's Resurrection"

Sorry for the delay but I would like to take this last minute stand in as an opportunity to share a little on Wednesday's devotional. Please feel free to contribute your own thoughts and comments.
Wednesday:
Today's devotional focuses on Peter acting as a witness to the resurrection of Jesus Christ and Stott points to the Biblical references Peter employs to support his testimony. Though I lack the appreciation Stott has towards the "written predictions of the prophets...", I am drawn to the person Peter has become as a witness to Jesus Christ.

We all know that Peter was the disciple who had denied knowing Jesus but eventually, as it is recorded in the book of Acts, Peter became a powerful witness for Jesus Christ. Not only that, Jesus approached Peter on an intimate level to reinstate Peter and to personally charge Peter to take care of His sheep. And so for me, more than the verses Stott points to in Peter's testimony, knowing the background of Peter puts weight on the credibility of his testimony. I am glad for people like Pastor James and John Stott to explain the significance of the Old testament. For like Peter, I too am a commoner with such little knowledge of Scripture but I am in awe of Peter's ability to wield the holy texts as a powerful tool to witness...to evangelize. It reveals the presence and empowering of the Holy Spirit to use Peter's words and actions which testifies to the "facts" he has witnessed of Christ-even of His resurrection.
Stott points out that the disciples came to read the Old Testament Christologically. It seems that once they realized that Jesus is the Christ, they recognized Him mentioned in the Holy Scriptures. Their eyes were able to see and perceive what they could not before knowing Christ. More importantly, their lives also converged to the "character and purpose" of the Old testament- to bear witness "to Christ, especially to His death, resurrection, and world wide mission."
In Peter's case, he bore witness to Christ even by the kind of death which he glorified God. I'm can't say that we too are called to follow Christ just like the way Peter did but there is much to learn from Peter as to the kind of disciple and witness he was for Jesus Christ.